Scariest Robot

[Aren_Hill]

3310 in 2015, most robots just have a few dangerous places to stand (in front of catapults for example), but the Arm on that thing had a huge death radius to where I just didn't stand near it

-Aren

[Mike Marandola]

Originally Posted by DRow

Team 620 in 2013. Without a doubt the hardest shooting robot I saw all season. (Full court shooting from bottom right):
https://youtu.be/lqoYS9SxmIo?t=42s

Can anyone link any close up photos of the shooter or have any info on it?

[dodar]

Team 1126, 2014: https://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2014nytr_qf1m1

[Noudvanbrunscho]

I'dd say 148 in 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYgpg0k4uwI

[pavong]

Originally Posted by dodar

Team 1126, 2014: https://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2014nytr_qf1m1

Seconded.
Its well earned nickname: THE CANNON

[Irwin772]

I may be a little biased on this one but 4069's bot from 2013 was one of the biggest hazards I've ever been a part of, shooting Frisbees at 80 miles an hour seems like a horrible idea looking back at it, and they did get loosed into the pits in Waterloo a couple times. Still not sure how they could not have had a speed limit that year like they did in 2006 with Aim High.

[Jcarbon]

The scariest robot we've ever built would certainly be our 2015 bot. Combine 18 ft long telescoping wings with hooks on them with season-long gyro and steering issues and you're sure to get some scares - like when we almost decapitated a judge at an offseason.

[Maldridge422]

Originally Posted by Mike Marandola

Can anyone link any close up photos of the shooter or have any info on it?

I'd like confirmation from someone on 620, but I'm pretty sure they told me it multiple flywheels mounted both vertically and horizontally.

It doesn't show a whole lot, but this is the best image I could find:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...5c&oe=5894AE00

[KosmicKhaos]

Originally Posted by dodar

Team 1126, 2014: https://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2014nytr_qf1m1

Originally Posted by pavong

Seconded.
Its well earned nickname: THE CANNON

We considered naming our 2014 robot "Please Don't Point it at Me". I think the name fits.

[runneals]

Originally Posted by 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.

Hey, that was with the crummy old access points I'm just happy it was at the end of the day and that we didn't take out anyone. Just imagine...

[Ringo5tarr]

Now, I've heard horror stories about our 2013 robot, taking off a fair bit of someone's finger (That robot's name is Charlie, for anyone who cares enough to get a 5 year old meme),

But I wasn't there for that, I was there for our 2015 robot, Anna (I think), to break the finger of our lead mentor in the middle of GKC,

We won the safety award. hooray.

[fargus111111111]

the two scariest robots I've ever seen were:
125's 2015 robot, literally slinging tennis balls at trashcans on the end of slim ropes attached to fishing poles that could win the infamous 1/4 second can wars.
and 254's 2013 robot, that thing was scary fast going up the tower

[Adnewhouse]

Our 2010 robot was genuinely frightening. To kick the ball we had these spinning tines of death that would spin up inside the robot frame to the point where the entire robot frame started to shake. Then, pistons would throw the entire mechanism forward at the right moment to let the spinning tines hit the soccer ball. I wish I had a better way to describe what it sounded like. If you got any body part in range of the front of the robot, it's fair to say it was gonna mess you up. No idea how we passed inspection that year.
http://www1.team639.org/sites/defaul...?itok=BMG3pL-i

[Linkathon1986]

Scary is up to interpretation. For us, it is the shameful killing machine we call a failure. Ares from 2014, Ariel Assist. There are countless stories of this bot. Between borderline finger injuries and headshots from poofballs, don't mess with the Bot of War.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

980 in 2003. It was an 18ft telescoping pole that spun around horizontally. It nearly clipped a ref in the head a couple times.

That was before they got it under control... Which if they hadn't, they'd have been DQ'd from more than one event. Anybody within 20 feet was at risk (the last couple feet from the shock of the near-miss).

Oh, and did I mention that the only thing powering it out--or in!--was physics--no cable, spring, or anything. Gravity and centripetal force outbound, gravity alone inbound (at least there was a latch to keep it in once it passed a certain point).


I was a bit scared by the 1197 robot this last year--you knew when the shooter was on, and I kind of didn't want to be directly in front of it.