[Chris Hibner]

This is a great thread. Here is my list of most inspiring robots, and how they inspired me:

1997 Wildstang - no robot ever went higher. They demonstrated that if you wanted to win over adversity, prehaps you had to be a little extreme.

1998 Juggernauts (1) - Small, simple, efficient. Give your operators something simple and easy to drive, and the results can be amazing - even against much more complicated machinces.

1999 Team Hammond (71) - I think this was my favorite of all of their robots. The design was just a little bit out of the box, and incredibly effective. They could score in every imaginable way. This robot caused me to start to explore all options of a game while thinking of a robot's capabilities.

2000 Chief Delphi (47) - in my opinion, the best FIRST robot of all time. This robot looked like an NBA all star playing in a high school basketball game. I guess this robot just inspired awe more than anything else.