Beachbots 330 flip/recovery gifs

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by JesseK

Notice how their drivers are calm the entire time. No jumping, pointing or shouting. Just moving some joysticks. They're in driver's station 3 in the upper-left side of the screen. At the end of the match the partners have their hands on their heads, possibly worried that the flip cost them the match? Not 330's drivers - calm, collected.

I re-watched the video and that's probably the most amazing thing. From the moment of the first flip, they barely even react. Just working the problem. The most reaction you see is the manipulator driver jumping a bit after the second flip, urging the robot to get back up in time for the challenge.

Question to any 330 members in the audience: Do you guys do astronaut level training or something? Throw 5 different problems at the drivers at once and see how they handle it? Or maybe... Maybe the drivers are robots too! 330 was bored with the standard FRC challenge and decided to up their game with robot drivers.