Most visually appealing robot

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

Nope... wasn't 60. Definitely was a 3 digit team.

Here's a list of teams from Arizona in 2004. Only nine 3-digit teams in the state that season.

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....04&area=AZ-USA

[Cory]

60 pre 2005. Nobody else was even close during that time frame. Cool before it was cool.

233 from 2005-2008. Especially 2005 and 2008. There's so many ridiculously awesome over the top features in those robots. The most minor of parts had a lot of effort put in to make them awesome. Check out the flag holder in 2008...

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Cory

60 pre 2005. Nobody else was even close during that time frame. Cool before it was cool.

Examples:

2001
2002
2003

They were light years ahead of everyone else when it came to aesthetics.

[The other Gabe]

Here's my favorites by year for the time I've been in FRC:
2012:
personal favorite: 2046 (definitely not biased)
Aesthetic: 233
Unique and effective: 67
2013:
Personal Favorite: 469
Aesthetic: 254/1983
Unique and effective: 118
2014:
Personal Favorite: 67
Aesthetic: 696
Unique and Effective: 254
2015:
Personal Favorite: 254/4488/148/no specific favorite
Aesthetic: 1114
Unique and Effective: 2826


some other cool robots: 1717 (any year they did swerve), 1425 (2014), 2471 (2012, 2015), 4061 (2015), 1983 (2013, 2015- check out their transport configuration), 4488 and all of these:

Originally Posted by BL0X3R

My personal favorites for the PNW:

2014: 1983, 2471, 4061

2015: 955, 1595, 2046

(you stole my thunder, man: I wanted to post all the pretty PNW bots )


I like a lot of robots...

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Cory

60 pre 2005. Nobody else was even close during that time frame. Cool before it was cool.

Forgetting about 254? Particularly in '04.


As far as the mystery team, the only one of the 3-digit AZ teams that isn't still competing is 898--and they weren't a one-and-done, '04 was their final year of 3. IIRC, they preferred a desert camo pattern (and I want to say that they're (one of) the reasons for the lexan on the field sides, after they ended a practice match E-stopped under the stands in '03 having gone under the wire...).


207 should go onto the list--they've always had a very nice-looking robot. There's a reason they're called "Metalcrafters".

[hectorcastillo]

Although I've been a huge fan of 118's and 148's designs since I first started, I'd have to so say that 1538's 2015 robot looks pretty slick.

[I_AM_Clayton]

I like 3397's Clawdia Robespierre:

https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...16&oe=5642C56F

[Ginger Bread]

4941 solely because we had 2 gold chains hence the name 2chainz.

[Jay O'Donnell]

I love 1538's robot from 2013 and 67 from any year.

[Michael Blake]

ALL-TIME greatest looking FRC robot...

148 Robowrangler's 2011 Raptor.

This bot should be in the Smithsonian on a rotating pedestal with a spotlight on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XECmOwmYiu8

--Michael Blake

[carpedav000]

Originally Posted by Michael Blake

ALL-TIME greatest looking FRC robot...

148 Robowrangler's 2011 Raptor.

This bot should be in the Smithsonian on a rotating pedestal with a spotlight on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XECmOwmYiu8

--Michael Blake

Gonna have to disagree with this statement, sir. I believe the greatest looking frc robot of all time is 118 Robonauts' 2011 robot, Magic.

[Joseph Smith]

Originally Posted by carpedav000

Gonna have to disagree with this statement, sir. I believe the greatest looking frc robot of all time is 118 Robonauts' 2011 robot, Magic.

That robot was absolutely gorgeous. I was fortunate enough to see it up close and personal my very first year in FRC when we played with them in the Archimedes division. That was also the first robot reveal video I ever watched... I'll never forget it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lRtC8wBUa0

[TheBoulderite]

I'm surprised that no one's mentioned 624 yet! They always have a great robot, a great strategy, and the robot always looks cool!

[Cory]

Originally Posted by EricH

Forgetting about 254? Particularly in '04.

Was trying not to toot our own horn. I'm not sure id count 2004 either. Not to discount anyone's work, because I know everyone on 254 and 60 put in a ton of it, but it's pretty obvious that 60 (particularly Glenn Thoroughman) taught 254 how to build elegant robots.

[Ryan Dognaux]

I remember team 207 making gorgeous looking robots back to the 2003 / 2004 time frame - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/15588

1024 has made very consistently bright robots for most of their team's career - http://www.mckenzierobotics.org/wp/robots/