Thread: Robot Diversity
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Unread 04-04-2010, 22:28
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Re: Robot Diversity

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Originally Posted by Tom Ore View Post
Agreed - this also helps diversity of bot design in coming years as teams see this is possible to achieve. This may be the long term impact of 469s 2010 bot - maybe other teams will raise their own expectations. I certainly will spend more time considering the options next year.
Teams like 469 will certainly inspire teams, but I was pointing out that 469 didn't take a risk at all. They knew that their robot could function in two ways. If 469 didn't have the smarts/resources/people/whatever-you-want-to-call-it to build a robot that performed that many functions so well, I think they might not have risked building the type of bot they did. Perhaps not, 125built a robot that hangs and loops, but not much else. As far as I know, the Nutrons have the only pure loop bot in all of FRC. From what I've seen of the Nutrons, they've always managed to build a robot that does something that no other robot in their regional does. Most teams just can't build a solid robot that does what every other robot does, and more. That's why many teams might not have taken the risks the Nutrons did, and probably won't in the future.
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