Your favorite robot of all time?

[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.