Without a doubt there isn't a robot that inspires me much at all. I'm more of a concepts kind of guy. That said, what inspires me the most is mecanum and holonomic drive, particularly teams (like 357) who go the extra lengths to manufacture everything themselves in an effort to show students what it takes to create a concept from scratch.
Ever model the continuous wheel equation from IEEE papers in Matlab? Yea, pretty pictures indeed, and if you take the concept further with a 3rd dimension to the model (undisclosed independant variable atm
) I do believe what I'm seeing is a singularity point signifying the a "best" solution -- but I need clarification from an old professor first. Even after college, you can still get inspired by these little robots
So to all teams that strive to make their robots agile enough to side-step opponents and do everything the game entails -- you are the ones who truly inspire me. I mean, the thing drives freakin
sideways.