Team 696 2011 and 2012 Robot in a GE Commercial

[mdiradoorian]

Everyone check out this video and look for two FRC robots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V27Zpztf-Ys

Tell me what you think.

[dcarr]

Saw them at the end, can't miss those flashing orange lights! Very cool! How did this get arranged?

[mdiradoorian]

I don't exactly know how it got arranged, but my mentor arranged it. It is extremely cool.

[sanddrag]

Beat ya to it. Mods, can we get a thread merge?

An interesting statistic is that it took 8 hours to film the last 15 seconds of the commercial. It was quite a large production.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Beat ya to it. Mods, can we get a thread merge?

An interesting statistic is that it took 8 hours to film the last 15 seconds of the commercial. It was quite a large production.

Any pictures from the filming?

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by dcarr

Any pictures from the filming?

Nope, but it was neat to experience.

[Billfred]

Alright, I've played that video about 15 times and I still can't find them (even with the flashing lights). What's the timecode on it, for those of us with a severe case of Apparent Robot Blindness?

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Alright, I've played that video about 15 times and I still can't find them (even with the flashing lights). What's the timecode on it, for those of us with a severe case of Apparent Robot Blindness?

Nearest I can tell, at 0:48, the robot in the light from the opening doors; at 0:52, to the left of and behind the guy from Star Trek.

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Nearest I can tell, at 0:48, the robot in the light from the opening doors; at 0:52, to the left of and behind the guy from Star Trek.

Here's more specifics:
At 0:47, 2012 robot in the bottom left and 2011 robot barely visible in the top left.
At 0:52, 2012 robot to the right of the Star Trek guy
At 0:54 2011 on the left with the orange light

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Here's more specifics:
At 0:47, 2012 robot in the bottom left and 2011 robot barely visible in the top left.
At 0:52, 2012 robot to the right of the Star Trek guy
At 0:54 2011 on the left with the orange light

I think you and I may be the only two on this forum who don't know the name of the Star Trek guy. High five!

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by Taylor

I think you and I may be the only two on this forum who don't know the name of the Star Trek guy. High five!

Not quite

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by dcarr

Not quite

I think Alan Anderson just threw up a little.

[lmedina]

Originally Posted by Taylor

I think you and I may be the only two on this forum who don't know the name of the Star Trek guy. High five!

The name of the droid is Lieutenant Commander Data

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Taylor

I think Alan Anderson just threw up a little.

I'd rather be well-known for what I do, not for a caricature of something that I'm not even all that excited about.

I saw one orange flashy light apparently showing "waiting for connection", but I couldn't recognize a FRC robot holding it. The darkness at the end of the video makes it very hard to see anything. I just barely recognized the "Star Trek guy" as Data, and only because of about three frames of a distinctive robotic head motion just as the teleporter effect fades out.

[sanddrag]

Another interesting note is that the guy who drove our 2011 robot for this commercial was one of the builders of the original Johnny 5 robots in the movie Short Circuit.