How much does your robot weigh?

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by s_forbes

If the scale at the competition has a tolerance of +-0.1 lbs, will a 120.1 pound robot pass inspection?

Yeah, we're right at the limit.

At the 2008 CMP our robot weighed in at 120.1 - in a panic, we ripped off one of the decorative covers on the rear of our bot to come in at 119.9. The volunteer operating the scale was nice enough to tell us that we could put it back on as the scale had a .1 lb margin of error. I'm fairly sure this holds true at most/many/all events, but I'm not too sure.

As for 2012, we're barely at 100lbs, although we're still missing a few minor components. Competition weight on the bot should be 105-107lbs pre-ballast.

[quinxorin]

My team's robot is, to my absolute amzement, 110.240 lbs. (Yes, fancy scale). We're always overweight; this year, we didn't swiss cheese; we reinforced. It was amazing!

[Ekcrbe]

Originally Posted by JosephC

Our robot will weigh 119.999999999 lbs roughly

On a serious note, we are looking at 98 lbs in-bag and a ~16-lb withheld shooter, plus some minor bits and pieces, so it will probably be around 114 lbs. I don't know if we are planning to put a 6-lb weight on.

[MrForbes]

Good question...it was 110 before we added what we think was five pounds. We have a lighter appendage in the bag to fix it if there's a problem.

[Chris_Ely]

My team's robot wayed 128 pounds 4 days ago . We put it on a swiss cheese diet, and now it ways 119.7 pounds. We ordered plastic air tanks to replace our metal tanks which should save us 2 pounds.

[Mr. Van]

Well, we guessed we'd come in around 100 lbs. Upon putting the Radiologist on our trusty bathroom scale, we were all stunned to see a weight of 115 lbs.

No worries. Still under weight, just surprising.

Took a few hours of sleep for a student to point out that no one had noticed that we had failed to remove the battery!

Looks like we'll be around 105 lbs. or so.

- Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox

[davidthefat]

122 lb, we are planning on swiss cheesing the giant half inch thick tensioner plate we have on the robot.

[372 lives on]

Originally Posted by thefro526

At the 2008 CMP our robot weighed in at 120.1 - in a panic, we ripped off one of the decorative covers on the rear of our bot to come in at 119.9. The volunteer operating the scale was nice enough to tell us that we could put it back on as the scale had a .1 lb margin of error. I'm fairly sure this holds true at most/many/all events, but I'm not too sure.

no it does not. at the Seattle competition they are very picky.. last year 120.1 pounds we took off .3 pounds of material(with 3 inspectors watching us) then weighed it again at 120.3 pounds. missed two matches...........................

[dodar]

When we weighed we were around 121-124.

[Andrew Remmers]

2757 Was at 93 before we put it in the bag... I guess we are adding more things at our first regional! :O

- Andrew

[Savvy578]

Our robot weighs anywhere from 112-117. The scale we had was being weird and weight exponentially...

[~Cory~]

119.5 on two different scales.

[Dr Theta]

102 as of right now. We're planning some iteration on a few components, so we'll see at comp. We'll definitely be under 120 though.

[Mk.32]

Originally Posted by quinxorin

My team's robot is, to my absolute amzement, 110.240 lbs. (Yes, fancy scale). We're always overweight; this year, we didn't swiss cheese; we reinforced. It was amazing!

What kind of scale is that?

[RRLedford]

We are well under 100 lbs, but we need to bulk all the way up to 120 lbs.
We are adding about 25 lbs of ballast weight to out far right side toward front.
Why? We drive up the bridge with most of our width hanging off the left side of the bridge and leaving room for normal bots to still pass by us on the bridge. Hopefully this makes the 3-bot balance easier with none of us protruding near the ends. With most of the robot overhanging the side rail, we really need a lot of weight on the far right just to have enough traction on the 2 wheels (of 6-wheel tank drive) that remain in good contact with bridge to get us up the slope. Lots of slipping and spinning wheels right now, but we can balance in 3 seconds from first wheel up on the bridge.

-Dick Ledford