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Re: Best Robot Ever 92-07 edition

Not everyone here knows what's so special about Beatty's 2002 robot. I'll do a quick explaination of it right now.

Basically, it was a flop-bot. It had a very quick drive system that was driven by two skyway wheels in the back. It had two arms that unfolded to grab onto the two goals on the sides of the field, and one grabber in the front to grab onto the middle goal. So, already, we know that this BEAST can grab all three goals. Not a common thing this year.

When it grabs onto these goals, it pulls the two side ones closer to avoid breaking those PVC arms, and the front of the robot drops down onto it's "crawling" mechanism. The robot then slowly, but quite surely, moved it's way to the zone with all three goals. The robot almost guaranteed that alliance 30 points while the other alliance could only get 20 points by having both robots in their endzone.

You can watch one of their matches right here.

It's pretty much impossible to stop the BEAST once it started crawling across the field.

You can also watch one of the only ways Beatty could be defeated here..
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