What materials do you most commonly use on your robots?

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Originally Posted by MichaelBick

Your original statement was that 8020 is a "terrible" material. My primary point is that this is obviously not the case, because a robot that was mostly built out of 8020 did so INSANELY well.

The best robot I've ever worked on (449's bot for Overdrive) was made mainly out of 80/20. This does not offset the fact that by far the single largest source of mechanical failures I have witnessed on our robots, both directly and indirectly, has been 80/20 construction. I have not seen those same mistakes made with tube/gusset construction, simply because the modes of failure I've seen most often are simply not possible with tube/gusset construction.