Bomb Squad Calls 911

[Meredith Novak]

Build Season is so exciting. We were setting up our "game court" today; it takes up almost our entire shop, so we temporarily moved some stuff out in the alleyway to make room and rearrange. When one of the mentors noticed some of the skater kids in the parking lot playing with what looked like pool noodles, I had a bad feeling about our 2006 robot we had set outside.

Sure enough, the robot was gone! After a frantic search of the area and some Jack Bauer-style questioning of the skaters, no robot. I called 911 and announced that the Bomb Squad had a robot stolen - well, that got their attention. By the time the officer got here, one of the skaters remembered seeing "Albert" on a moped with what could only be our robot.

A sweet 3-wheel articulated crab drive 17 fps robot base on the back of a moped and WE DON'T HAVE A PICTURE!!! That is the real crime.

Apparently Albert was collecting trash for recycling...one man's treasure is another man's trash. We are hoping to get the robot back...

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Meredith Novak

Build Season is so exciting. We were setting up our "game court" today; it takes up almost our entire shop, so we temporarily moved some stuff out in the alleyway to make room and rearrange. When one of the mentors noticed some of the skater kids in the parking lot playing with what looked like pool noodles, I had a bad feeling about our 2006 robot we had set outside.

Sure enough, the robot was gone! After a frantic search of the area and some Jack Bauer-style questioning of the skaters, no robot. I called 911 and announced that the Bomb Squad had a robot stolen - well, that got their attention. By the time the officer got here, one of the skaters remembered seeing "Albert" on a moped with what could only be our robot.

A sweet 3-wheel articulated crab drive 17 fps robot base on the back of a moped and WE DON'T HAVE A PICTURE!!! That is the real crime.

Apparently Albert was collecting trash for recycling...one man's treasure is another man's trash. We are hoping to get the robot back...

Actually I believe I've seen a picture posted on here recently, I'll link to it once I find it.

[gorrilla]

what i want to know is, how did he fit it on the moped???

[Akash Rastogi]

Isn't this the correct robot?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23651

You can see most of the robot...

Good luck

[megaman_22201]

that sucks, i know how you feel...

our robot was also stolen 2 years ago, it sucked major. we had the news cover our story but we never got our robot in the end.

but on the bright side, we did give F.I.R.S.T. a lot of TV time





-Avinesh-
-Team 1778-

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Isn't this the correct robot?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23651

You can see most of the robot...

Good luck

Yes, that is the kidnapped bot. We have the turret, shooter and gum-ball-machine hopper. We have been modifying the shooter for proto-typing; that is why the stripped base was on site. It's just too bad that we never have weight for the GPS locator

[samir13k]

If only you had the new system in the bot and the bot was on...you could set up a control station in the back of someones car and drive around town....then you could use the live video feed when you were within range to find out where the bot was
lol, good luck finding your bot though

[Brandon_L]

Wow....that sucks big time....hope you find it!

[Pjohn1959]

Man that's really a low blow.

I would have thought that with all the sensors you guys put on those 'bots, that one of them would have been a GPS, so you could keep track of it.

I hope that you can get it back, since it is part of your team's history.

Paul

[gorrilla]

maybe we should put an extra lock on our doors?...

[smurfgirl]

That's really too bad that someone stole your robots. On the plus side, at least it wasn't the 2009 robot the day before ship... But it's awful losing any robot. I hope you get it back.

[JaySchmidt]

Originally Posted by gorrilla

maybe we should put an extra lock on our doors?...

It wasn't inside we placed it outside to save a little room while we get everything put together inside. then we went outside to bring the robot back inside and it was gone. When we found out it was gone the entire team scrambled in their cars and went searching.

WANTED* Albert - Blue moped - Orange jumpsuit - of course the 2006 robot

[Meredith Novak]

UPDATE! Robot found. Well, pieces of robot anyway. I haven't seen what is left of it. I got a call from the police this afternoon that they had spotted it (it is great to live in a small town!) but the guy wouldn't open his door.

So I dispatched a couple of mentors with a truck to accompany the officer to pick it up. Apparently it had been stripped, but they gathered up what they could.

The poor robot had quite an adventure, I'm sure!

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by gorrilla

what i want to know is, how did he fit it on the moped???

We really don't know. Even though it was just the base of the robot, it still weighed about 80 pounds. He is obviously a talented person and if we can find him, maybe we can ask him to be a mentor.