New Game Idea: ROBOT HOCKEY!!

[buss]

Ok, after watching the winter olympics, all I have to say is two words:
Robot Curling.

That has to be the best sport I've ever seen. And that's not even sarcasm!

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by buss

Curling [-] That has to be the best sport I've ever seen. And that's not even sarcasm!

We took a Boy Scout troop curling a couple of years ago, and they had a blast. The boys were also gleeful that the only people who fell down were adults.

Robot curling -- would they sweep and shoot both? Using full-size rocks? Sounds cool to me, but not much would happen in two minutes.

[John Gutmann]

The only problem I see with this game Idea is that the pucks are so small. This means one team would beable to hold probally all the pucks on the field at once really easya nd it would be hard for the drives to see what is going on with the pucks.

Also what would the human player do?

[the_short1]

Originally Posted by sparksandtabs

The only problem I see with this game Idea is that the pucks are so small. This means one team would beable to hold probally all the pucks on the field at once really easya nd it would be hard for the drives to see what is going on with the pucks.

Also what would the human player do?

hehe.. wow i thought this was more of a crazy idea then something doable .. cool.. . .as for pucks too small.... what about circles of HARD cheese?? ? .. ok that was a joke... could be a larger version of a puck, and if a robots on its side.. their going to slide real easy out of the way.. .. too many pucks? make possession limit rules.

acually now that i think about it more.. . their should be VERY little fallen robots.. they should all have low chasis to pick up pucks and low CofG because your not trying to shoot high... and you might have a stick style shooter which would be cool to see how they made the stick swing... our school made a robot shoot hockey balls for 2002? Canadian First robotics challenge.. and they had it slapshot

what would the human players do.. ok this is great idea: make them the goalie! im sure 200lb hockey players running into goalies / much faster hard pucks would hurt more then 130 lb robots shooting plastic ones at low velocity hahaha.. i smell not safe, but it would be cool... they can feed pucks?

zamboni: make a robotic zamboni, autonymously programmed.. we have the people, technology, and smarts. FIRST could ship this bot around to each regional well maybe have 2 in case one breaks..

[irishninja]

What about twelve inch diamter omni wheels for the pucks?