were there robot related injuries on your team?

[BandChick]

I can't believe I haven't posted this yet!
One of our mentors was cutting down a connector for our base, and the metal got stuck in the gear. It took off a big chunk of teeth, and put a few nice indents into our connector. But worst of all, there was a big chunk taken out of our mentors finger. 17 stitches worth.

[Charger_07]

Man, some of these injuries make my injuries like accidently sanding my finger on the belt sander and cutting my thumb w/ a screw driver look like nothing

[spadercool]

One team member cut himself on wirecutters. Funny scene, now there is a joke going around.

[mechanicalbrain]

Last week I was pulling a piece of 80/20 out of a socket that it was stuck in. Well I gave a good heave and the bar popped right out. Smacked me right in the eye (I was wearing safety glasses though). What scares me was it cracked the glasses and left a little cut on my eyelid, if I hadn't been wearing glasses I probably would have done some serious eye damage.

The lesson: It doesn't matter what you are doing, if you are near the robot you need glasses.

[spamified88]

Ok, yesterday, for the the first time our robot was moving around, and I realized that if you stop really fast, robots will fall down on you!

[Éowyn]

Nothing happened on our team some band-aids could'nt handle. A couple of kids cut their hands on metal shavings from drill bits, and I nicked myself with the hand deburrer.(While using it left-handed. ) The worst injury came when one of our mentors went skiing with his daughter and came back with his hand covered in band-aids. I think he got his hand caught in the lift or something.

[IraJason]

Originally Posted by SirCharles982

well last week our team had one of our first injuries... i was making a hole larger on one of the copper battery terminals and silly me rushed through and forgot to clamp it down and sliced up my thumb pretty good when the copper caught the bit. but luckly it didnt affect my abilities too bad

I'm sure it hurt Chuck, but it wasn't that bad... at least you weren't gushing blood. Nothing a few band-aids couldn't fix.

Though a few members on our team thought that they red wire was the drill press covered in your blood. It took a little bit before we realized that it was just the wire wrapped around the bit.

The good news is that the battery terminal and wire still works, and I believe its been put onto the robot. I think that was the more important issue in this whole ordeal... right Chuck?

[UnknownUser1989]

yea there was this one happened on like 3rd week of build. So we were testing our ball gatherer, and Katie was trying to tighten a bolt. While she was doing this a fellow team member Aaron, was attaching a drill to make a roller spin. The fellow team member Aaron by accident pulled the trigger and the roller started with Katie's hand inside. Her hand got stuck and was hit pretty hard(about 2000 rpm) with surgical tubing, (which was there for added friction). Katie now has a splint on her finger right now and most likely will have to get surgery after build season is done. At least Katie and Aaron will never forget this year. Note to self when ppl come near u with a drill ask them if it is in neutral.

[Daniel Morse]

On the 5th week of build one of our members (a very entertaining character by nature) accidentally drilled through his finger. He said "I am not going to look down because I think I drilled a hole through my finger, and it is probably bleeding". Other than that, it has been a good year.

[UnknownUser1989]

this isn't a injury but it was pretty funny. last year our robot decided to spin out of control in circles with the arm fully extened and a tetra on the finger. it didn't hit any1 but it scared a jude so bad that he jump out of his chair n ran away. a couple seconds later the bot fell over n the wheels kept tryin to spin. throughout all this the robot kept the tetra on the finger.

[mizscience]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Our robot attacked our programmer autonomously.

lmao! just the way you phrased that made it 10 times funnier

[mizscience]

luckily, i have yet to suffer any major robotics injuries, the worst so far being shallowly slicing my finger while using a double-bladed exacto knife. though last year, one of our mech guys got dragged around the room by the robot when one of the kids turned on the controller w/o realizing it would actually control the robot

[Matt Royek]

I'm not sure anyone was injured per sé, but we did a test during build season in which we had to see how much our driving base could pull/push. So, we had a couple brave members get on the ground, flat on their stomachs, and have the robot pull them the length of the hall. Good times.

My personal injury could possibly be considered robot-related, as I had to unsolder a few things from a board to use with the robot. These were also secured with hot glue, which had to be removed to get to the solder.

Burnt myself 4 times with hot solder and I think I lost a ton of brain cells from inhaling melting glue.

[BandChick]

Yesterday our team was testing out our shooter. We loaded the ball which went up, hit the ceiling, hit the shooter, and then hit our mentor in the face! >_< We have video! It's pretty funny....

[JakeOfIron]

our CNC operator has scars all over his hand from cutting it on the drill bit. Our funniest injury, though was last year, when three of us were trying to shorten a bolt to use on a table for our pit. We used a hacksaw, and failed to realize it would get very hot. I think each of us tried to pick it up three or four times, burning our hands each time. The running joke now is "Ug! Bolt hot!" The worst part is that we took the second bolt to one of our Senior manufacturing guys, who shortened it with ease and lack of burning with the belt grinder.