[Jeremiah Johnson]

648's long list of "best" robots include:

2002: "The Shopping Cart" - This robot was completely amazing to watch. It sucked up those soccer balls and filled the basket very quickly and efficiently. We used a transmission, the first and only year we did that. There was a goal lift on the latching mechanism to transfer the weight for traction gain.

2004: "Napoleon" - This was a fun robot to drive. I loved hanging with this robot and it was the first robot to get major success in game, until we got wiped by the Technokat alliance in Chicago. This bot was also the 7th seed in Archimedes at Championship.

2005: "Alexander the Great" - There were absolutely no failures what-so-ever with this robot and it still runs the way it was built to. This robot extended outwards for stability instead of flopping over. It won us the Xerox Creativity Award and silver in StL, as well as a controversial semi-final loss in Chicago that year. It was soooo fun to drive this robot around.

2007: "Spartacus" - This was our first attempt at crab steer. We had mild success with autonomous. We also won the Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award in Chicago and yet another silver medal, first overall draft pick and top scorer in Midwest. Had no success in Atlanta, though.