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Originally Posted by P.J. Baker
For 177, I think that the 2001 robot was our best. Very simple to build maintain and drive. Pretty well suited to the game as well. It edges out the 1998 robot which took more effort to build and was much harder to drive (Doug and Jessie just made it look easy).
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PJ beat me to it. It's hard to say anything bad about those robots because those are the two most 177 alum would say are tops. We look at them every year to see what we've done right in the past.
98 was a #1 Qualifier at Nationals that year and many teams this year used a variation on our roller claw from that year to pick up tubes.
2001 Was such a simple and elegant design and it still runs fine. It was also the debut of the 2nd gen Bobcat extendo arm when we switched from monocoque sheetmetal to extruded box.
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