Scariest Robot

[Bpk9p4]

to have fun with todays holiday i though it might be fun to see what teams though the scariest FRC robot was. I will leave what scariest means up for interpretation

I will start it off
- 1678 (Citruis Circuits) 2015. There can wips were crazy fast and super scary

[Jon Stratis]

Can you say harpoon cannons?




The worst part was talking with the MC that was going to have to walk around on the field with this thing fully loaded!

[bobbysq]

- 4646 2014 offseason. Lost control at the 2014 Des Moines Maker Faire and ran into a row of chairs. (blame the several year old battlebot control system we used)
- 3928 2014. Lost control at the 2015 Des Moines Maker Faire and ran into a row of chairs.
- 4646 2016. Ran into a chair at the DMACC STEM festival after crossing a moat.

The robot uprising is coming for your chairs first, people.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Can you say harpoon cannons?




The worst part was talking with the MC that was going to have to walk around on the field with this thing fully loaded!

Definitely the scariest this decade.

Also worthy of consideration:

180, 2002. They called it Fluffy, because there was nothing cuddly about this thing at all. This was the robot that smashed a dominant 71 into the barrier and busted their wheel mount in Einstein finals, because that was the only way anyone was going to stop them.

25, 2003. Originally titled Opportunity Knocks, this robot was beastly on the top of the hill that year--including knocking their own alliance partner off. That led game announcer to proclaim "That is an evil machine!" The name has been applied to most-if-not-every 25 robot since.

[adciv]

I don't remember the team, but one robot in 2014 used a car suspension spring for launching the ball by catapult. I was scared to be near it when it was in compression.

[Edxu]

Being anywhere around the field or the pits when 2013 (Cybergnomes) have either their 2014 or 2016 robot.

1114's 2015 robot.

[Nuttyman54]

Team 60 Bulldogs 2002 robot spinning two mobile goals around...you didn't go anywhere near it.

Team 125 Nutrons 2008 robot that almost took out lighting trusses at multiple events shooting the 40" ball with garage door springs.

[Ali Ahmed]

Easy. Team 71's, Team Hammond, robot from 2002. I know it gets brought up a lot in these types of threads but it deserves it. That thing was pretty much unstoppable. Once it got its hooks in the goals there was nothing stopping it. Also, knowing that they were gonna win their third straight Championship was scary also. Deserved, but scary. There's a reason they're the Beast.

A very close second would be Team 60, Bionic Bulldogs, from 2002. I was lucky enough to be around when they came to our pre-ship scrimmage and got to see that thing up close and personal. Just for fun, they lifted the two goals and spun them around. It was insane how much power that thing had. Also, it was FAST. They had a very early iteration of shifting gearboxes and man, that thing could move.

[Thayer McCollum]

Originally Posted by adciv

I don't remember the team, but one robot in 2014 used a car suspension spring for launching the ball by catapult. I was scared to be near it when it was in compression.

You likely weren't talking about us, but in 2014 we used four (4) 500lb. springs and it was scary. Scary enough that it struggled to pass inspection. That catapult rocked the whole robot every time it fired. And I'm pretty sure that if the cable that pulled the spring mechanism had snapped it would have ripped the entire robot apart. Another robot that was pretty scary was 1619's 2013 robot. You would watch it scale the pyramid and it turned out that scaling by the corner although ingenious was really scary because the whole pyramid would shake every time the bumpers passed a rung.

[Tyler Olds]

FRC1519's robot kicking Dean in the face with a soccer ball!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnE0j69_gYk

[frcguy]

Easily these.

Also, if we're talking about robots that sound scary, 5817 and 5012's 2016 robots both had shooters that sounded like leafblowers when they spun up, and 5817's shot looked like it had the potential to mess someone up if it went astray.

[Travis Hoffman]

Any of 276's (RIP in Peace) "rotary walker" bots.

Talk about a slasher - this guy would (inadvertently) climb on top of other robots and rip and rend their innards to pieces.

Back in the day, I believe FIRST used a video of their biggest rotary walker (I think it was their 2003 robot) climbing on top of another robot as part of some promo video. I believe they called that robot "Goliath".

I'm not sure if this was their largest iteration:



(Koko Ed likes this. He loves him some Mad Cows.)

[Ari423]

I'm surprised 2826 in 2015 hasn't been mentioned yet. That thing looked like it wanted to eat my firstborn child. To quote myself in an earlier thread:

Originally Posted by Ari423

Visually stunning in the sense that whenever I saw them they made me pee my pants and run away.

<edit>meant in the best way possible</edit>

[tr6scott]

https://youtu.be/n-ZHapIVG_c

How about 33, 2014 bot? I mean it basically looked like a coffin on wheels, and the noise it made when they shot.... thumbPOP!

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by frcguy

Easily these.

Thanks for finding that link for me!

Speaking as someone that worked on making these grabbers, that thing was terrifying. This teather-able cheesecake mechanism had far more power than our actual robot did, just look how far it lofted the cinder blocks and sand bags holding it down.

Working on our 2010 robot's kicker was also scary, I have no doubt it would shatter bones, not break them.