Image Discuss: TechnoKat Robot 2003

[CD47-Bot]

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[OneAngryDaisy]

Very nice!! I'm assuming your arms have some kind of gripping material at their bottoms to stick to the polycarb.. right?


also- the pic title says " expect to see this at the end of your autonomous mode" - so how fast is it?

[Katie Reynolds]

... Wow. Very nice, as always!

How are you staying on the top of the ramp? Suction cups?

- Katie

[Gope]

As in standard techno fasion, you've chosen to battle it out with the guys with the beefy drive trains. Very nice looking, and I'm sure you've got the gearing ratio's and traction devices to back up the meanicing feel.

Good luck.

[Joe Matt]

Good luck. Everyone knows how well this design faired last year with MOE and Sparky 3.0.

[Yan Wang]

It looks nice but suction cups won't even help. Though suction cups may prevent lifting up, they still slide around... and we all know torque = force over distance and there's a huge distance between the span of your 'wings' and your drive train... Robots can probably spin you around like a top And the way we're doing things, we can hit you right on that outer most wing part in autonomous

[Madison]

Originally posted by monsieurcoffee
It looks nice but suction cups won't even help. Though suction cups may prevent lifting up, they still slide around... and we all know torque = force over distance and there's a huge distance between the span of your 'wings' and your drive train... Robots can probably spin you around like a top And the way we're doing things, we can hit you right on that outer most wing part in autonomous

. . . you'll notice that their wings are designed to deflect some of the force of an oncoming robot.

. . . you'll also notice that, unlike many other robots like this, they have taller towers at each end of their wings. I'd bet it's not for suction cups. There are lots of other cool, interesting things you could do with that space.

Have faith. 45 isn't unbeatable, but they're not a stupid bunch, either. They're a well balanced team that thinks things through, and I doubt you'll find anything that's a sure fire way of getting by them just by looking at their robot.

[Rob Colatutto]

good as always... *is glad 45 isn't at the long island regional*

[Stephen Kowski]

very sharp robot as always....

[JVN]

Originally posted by monsieurcoffee
It looks nice but suction cups won't even help. Though suction cups may prevent lifting up, they still slide around... and we all know torque = force over distance and there's a huge distance between the span of your 'wings' and your drive train... Robots can probably spin you around like a top And the way we're doing things, we can hit you right on that outer most wing part in autonomous

Knowing the Technokats, I highly DOUBT you could spin them at all, let alone like a top. Perhaps you should look at their previous drivetrain teasers. Techno-tranny 2003 with those pretty rubber tracks can probably own 99% of robots out there... Do you really think your part of the 1%?

You can be sure a team as high quality as 45 will make sure their suction cups won't "slide around". Whatever they have at the end of those wings, likely isn't easy to move, laterally or otherwise.

Personally, I can't wait to get a close look at that bot in Houston...
Good luck to 45 this year!

[Ian W.]

do those colored flags do anything besides give a nice atmosphere and help the driver orient themselves? also, i remember there being a teaser about omni-wheels. could that be in the big mysterious container at the end of each wing? that would allow 45 to move themselves back when needed, if someone pushed them.

also, i'm sure there's something hidden. if the technokats plan to sit on top for 2 minutes, i would be dissapointed. of course, that makes me think a modular robot, which would mean these wings are but a part of what will be showing up. of course, we didn't see anything besides the wings, drive train, and omni-wheels. of course, maybe the omni-wheels could completely replace the treads, but that'd be slightly insane i think. doable, but slightly insane.

all in all though, very nice robot. i hope to see more in houston (if 810 comes and makes our bot work ).

[sevisehda]

It looks like they're hiding some neat mechanisms in those nacelles. They could have a secondary drive out there that would kill any force you pushed them with. I think you should of made one of the flags green so it would fit marine standards.

[Solace]

Originally posted by JVN
Knowing the Technokats, I highly DOUBT you could spin them at all, let alone like a top. Perhaps you should look at their previous drivetrain teasers. Techno-tranny 2003 with those pretty rubber tracks can probably own 99% of robots out there... Do you really think your part of the 1%?

the only surefire way i see of beating this bot is getting to the ramp before they do. those arms may make it a great blocker, but they also make it easy to block.

Originally posted by Solace
the only surefire way i see of beating this bot is getting to the ramp before they do. those arms may make it a great blocker, but they also make it easy to block.

obviously the wings come up, otherwise that wouldnt make it within the FIRST size limits of starting

[Rob Colatutto]

with that bot, i think they would be able to push you off the top if they really wanted to, they are probably right about them having some type of drive on those arms, they look pretty big and easily able to hide something in