Your favorite robot of all time?

[BrennanB]

Oooh here we go. Probably some less popular picks for some people to enjoy.

2016 - 1241
2015 - 2826
2014 - 971
2013 - 469
2012 - 341
2011 - 1114
2010 - 469
2009 - 217
2008 - 1114
2007 - 1114

As for favorite of all time, I think I would have to give it to 469 in 2013. Double frisbee loading, nice autonomous, most versatile FCS/cycling robot of 2013 hands down, and a really interesting pickup.

[jwfoss]

Some offbeat selections, some pretty common ones:
2003-236
2004-190
2005-179
2006-111
2007-179
2008-16
2009-N/A
2010-469
2011-177
2012-33
2013-610
2014-254
2015-1114
2016-971

[JeremyLansing]

973 in 2011.

[Karthik]

This is a really hard exercise.

1998: 47, 111
1999: 45, 111
2000: 25, 47, 111
2001: 71, 111
2002: 60, 71
2003: 111
2004: 60, 254
2005: 67, 217, 229
2006: 469
2007: 67, 330, 469
2008: 217, 254, 987
2009: 1241's Human Player, 2056's Human Player
2010: 469
2011: 254
2012: 67, 1717
2013: 118, 987
2014: 254, 900
2015: 148, 1678
2016: 148, 195, 2056, 5172

[Matt C]

Originally Posted by jwfoss

2004-190

x2, but I'm biased.
It was a boring robot for the operators though.

[marshall]

Originally Posted by Karthik

This is a really hard exercise.

1998: 47, 111
1999: 45, 111
2000: 25, 47, 111
2001: 71, 111
2002: 60, 71
2003: 111
2004: 60, 254
2005: 67, 217, 229
2006: 469
2007: 67, 330, 469
2008: 217, 254, 987
2009: 1241's Human Player, 2056's Human Player
2010: 469
2011: 254
2012: 67, 1717
2013: 118, 987
2014: 254, 900
2015: 148, 1678
2016: 148, 195, 2056, 5172

Thank you! Our 2014 bot is one of my personal favorite's as well. It was all about cutting cycle time. I wish it had gone further at CMP but alas...

This thread is proving to me that I need to spend more time looking at other robot designs.

[C.Lesco]

One of my favs, 5246 in 2014, its just cool

[Dylan179]

Originally Posted by C.Lesco

One of my favs, 5246 in 2014, its just cool

1254 was talking about them, it's the lawn chairs 😂

[Brianna_G#839]

Definitely 330's robot from this year

[Kevin Leonard]

From my time in FIRST:

2011- 40, 1503
2012- 4334, 58, 67
2013- 3467, 1918, 469, 2169, 195
2014- 900, 1918, 2485, 5254
2015- 148, 4039, 1325, 3476
2016- 558, 3683, 4678, 1241, 3624

My favorite robots are generally the ones that do a lot with a little. The simple, elegant designs and the ones that make you go "Man that's so much simpler than ours, why didn't we do that?"

My favorite robot of all time is probably a toss up between 67 in 2012 and 900 in 2014.
67's 2012 robot almost single-handedly inspired me to really get into FIRST. Before Archimedes 2012 I enjoyed FRC, but after seeing the elegant engineering of that machine, I wanted to be like them.

900 in 2014 was a robot any team could have built, but didn't. It was so smart and simple, but also so against what most teams thought they needed to have that year.
I had some crazy plans if we were an alliance captain in Archimedes about picking up 900 and 1918 for some crazy death cycle shenanigans.

[Steven Donow]

Two robots I'd like to mention:

2016 in 2011 - their wheeled roller claw was incredible; one of the best intakes that year.

987 in 2012 - This robot didn't lose a match until their last match of qualifications at Championships. The only other two matches they lost were in Einstein finals.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

I had some crazy plans if we were an alliance captain in Archimedes about picking up 900 and 1918 for some crazy death cycle shenanigans.

We know

[dodar]

I would like to mention that 1625 from 2008 is criminally underrated because of how amazing 1114, 254, and 148 were that year. Just go back and watch 1625 from that year and your jaw will drop.

[bkahl]

Originally Posted by Gregor

We know

#deathcycle

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

233 in 2005. I remember having to pick my jaw up off the floor watching it pick up two tetras from the loader in auto mode (Autonomous mode was a lot more boring in 2005).

Being in the same division with them at Champs, that robot had a large impact on me back then also. Them and 71 who was "beastly" in that division too.