Our 2004 robot was in a parade in 2005 when it started to rain halfway through. And ironically the electronics fared much better than the mechanisms. Whereas the steel gears in the transmissions did not take very nicely to the water, the entire IFI control system was fine. In fact, that same control system was recently used on our
Mountain Dewbot, which was designed to drive through snow.
With many electronics, if you dry them completely
before turning them on (after they decided to become close friends with dihydrogen monoxide) they'll be fine. But what surprises me is that our 2004 robot was
on during the parade when it was raining.
