Einstein Can-Race Compilation Video

[Chris Hapstack]

I recorded most (twelve) of the can races on Einstein and compiled the clips into a video here. Slow-mo of all clips is also included.

Edit: This is original video shot by me, not from the webcast.

[Kevin Leonard]

This is the coolest thing to come out of this year, byfar.
Fantastic.

[Ichlieberoboter]

That's awesome. And wow, that airplane thing really got out of hand...

[Govind Girish]

Team 118 would keep grabbing the containers at the exact same time as 987 and both would get stuck, but 118 also programmed the robot to let go during autonomous, allowing 987 to grab the containers

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by Govind Girish

Team 118 would keep grabbing the containers at the exact same time as 987 and both would get stuck, but 118 also programmed the robot to let go during autonomous, allowing 987 to grab the containers

118 did win once when they ripped off one of 987's hooks.

[Chad987]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

118 did win once when they ripped off one of 987's hooks.

Yep. They were designed to have a single ziptie holding them on to avoid larger damage. I believe we started running 2 zipties as a do or die method after that

[Lil' Lavery]

Looks like 1678 won all of their races. However, I don't they matched up against the fastest tier of burglers in any of their races. Curious to see how 1678 would have done against 987/2056/330.

[Electronica1]

Ok, so watch this video muted while playing this in the background. It actually works pretty well.

[Chad987]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Looks like 1678 won all of their races. However, I don't they matched up against the fastest tier of burglers in any of their races. Curious to see how 1678 would have done against 987/2056/330.

2512 was running the exact same can burgalers as us So I'm going to guess pretty similarly, though we begin driving forward almost instantly in auto. 1678s grabbers are awesomely fast.

[Bennett548]

548 is proud to have had some canburglars on Einstein!
1711 developed their own version of the canburglars that we cheesecaked with them at MSC. 1089 had a set that 548 and 1023 helped them get going just before and during Einstein.

Unfortunately, there were electrical or programming issues with the set on 1089, so they weren't going full speed.

548 ourselves had an even faster set on our robot, but had some bad matches on Hopper and went out in the semis.

I think it would be really cool to have a canburglar drag-race off to the side of the practice area at IRI, with an ultra high-speed camera to catch the action and find out the fastest.

[George Nishimura]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Looks like 1678 won all of their races. However, I don't they matched up against the fastest tier of burglers in any of their races. Curious to see how 1678 would have done against 987/2056/330.

Did they ever face up against 3310 or 4522 who seemed to have pretty fast canburglars on Newton? From watching them I didn't think 3310 could be beaten...

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by Bennett548

548 is proud to have had some canburglars on Einstein!
1711 developed their own version of the canburglars that we cheesecaked with them at MSC. 1089 had a set that 548 and 1023 helped them get going just before and during Einstein.

Unfortunately, there were electrical or programming issues with the set on 1089, so they weren't going full speed.

548 ourselves had an even faster set on our robot, but had some bad matches on Hopper and went out in the semis.

I think it would be really cool to have a canburglar drag-race off to the side of the practice area at IRI, with an ultra high-speed camera to catch the action and find out the fastest.

Well thank you very much for 1711's canburglars!

[John Retkowski]

One thing I also noticed about 1678's canburgler was that they had the robot driving forward even before the arms fell into the cans. I think this really helped them get the cans off the step and out of the way of the opposite bot, so that there wouldn't even have to be a tug of war had.

[Anteprefix]

Originally Posted by George Nishimura

Did they ever face up against 3310 or 4522 who seemed to have pretty fast canburglars on Newton? From watching them I didn't think 3310 could be beaten...

1678 faced off directly against 3310 in Semifinal 2 on Newton and won the can battle.

[stens987]

This video was great! Thanks for sharing!