Do old robots get to Heaven?

[KenWittlief]

team 578 was originally sponsored by Kodak in '97 and '98. The robot they built in '97 was very robust and had a simple 2 wheel drive train.

R2K2 was still in use a few years ago as a driving practice robot by team 578.

Generally speaking, robots that are robust and can be driven without a 1:1 drive:repair ratio tend to stick around for a long time. Robots that break after every 15 minutes of use tend to get canabalized for their control system and motors.

[teno121]

Our old robots (since 1996) are up in a graveyard-like loft that we can walk through during brainstorming/prototyping the next year. Robots the team is proud of mostly still work and are on the floor next to the new one. Then one is in a display case at the high school.

[pez1959]

Hmm I thought old robots end up carrying a gold ball across the country....or maybe im just imagining things....

[Revan]

Hopefully They DO lol
Our Robots
2003 - 04: Made out of wood, broke it part for parts, and learning tools
2004 - 05: For Show, drive and programming testing
2005 - 06: Only Time Will Tell!!!!!

[Ed Sparks]

There a little tricky to Baptize.

We Baptist believe in the full Dunk'in (Southern Baptist). That Sprink-lan stuff just don't get them into heaven.

[Dan Petrovic]

Our 2002 bot was cut up by a graduated student with a hack-saw because of it's poor performance.
Our 2003 bot, which was the best bot that I have seen this team make, was taken apart and the parts are in a student's garage because he is determined to put it back together.
Our 2004 bot is in the back of a graduated student's car, it was really short.
Our 2005 bot is sitting in the closet at the school. It was used for driver tryouts and training. We want to fix it and bring it back up to working order.

I have no idea about any robot before then.

[Li Jianliang]

2002 'Bot is in one piece, battery-less, sitting underneath a shelf in the school robotics room. It has a claw at one end and I have yet to figure out what the robot does since I only joined the team in 2004.
2003 'Bot is on the bottom of a robot pile in the school robotics workshop. Some parts are missing/gutted out.
2004 'Bot sits on top of our 2003 'bot and is completely disassembled. My teammates just got bored one afternoon a few weeks ago and torn it apart... It was the last robot to make it to the Championship competition.
2005 'Bot is in two halves: the arm for picking up tetras and the chassis & etc. It's on top of the aforementioned robot pile, but no one really dares to touch it because someone drove it through horse manure last year.
2006 'Bot is the only fully-functional robot. It rests in the robotics workshop and has won us a school club fair (ha! we had the biggest thing in the room!). It's not going to retire until the next season starts in January 2007... We still need to take it out to do gigs at local scrimmages, festival, and get potential recruits for the team next year.

[Zyik]

973 has two robots sitting in our shop, 2 in the shed and one coming back from Atlanta. One of these days it's going to get too crowded, and I don't know what we're going to do.

[JulieB]

2001: No arm will soon become a cart
2002: I don't where the frame is but the parts are in trash probably why? i
don't know
2003: half together we need parts
2004: missing two wheels
2005: still together but not for long

[Pavan Dave]

Im not sure about the bots that started the team but, the bots of the last 4 years, we donated 1 whole robot as well as robot accessories I believe to Katrina teams, and we have the base of Valcorie and have the whole Chainzilla in tact.

We used chanizilla to practice while we were building the Practice bot and than we tried to have one bot defend while this year's bot shot balls and stuff but something happend with the frequencies and stuff...

As for this year's bot? I believe it will hold the 2nd box while chainzilla holds the first and the new bot gets the 3rd to practice auto modes maybe??? lol



Pavan

[Gabe]

Originally Posted by NeedMoreEngines

So, what I want to know from other teams is, what do YOU do with old robots? where do they go for some well needed R & R??

604 has taken apart the 2001, 2002, and 2003 robots simply because they where beyond repair. They had been stored in a math class for a year, and other high scholl students had vandalized them and stolen parts.

Our 2005 robot is eagerly waiting its call to duty, and it still is Quixilver's favorite both. We have kept it running to run against 2006 in practice, and for the future challenges. And demos, can't forget them.

The future of 2006 will be determined once we figure out where we will work next year. Probably will be upgraded.


What came first: the student or the mentor?

[spike]

what do u do with old robots they dont go to heavin they bare treated like gold on my team always keeping them working like the day they were made there is no heaven for a first robot unless it comes down to needing parts witch happend to our stack attack robot but slowley she is coming back together

[Freddy Schurr]

Well for Team 204, all the robots are taken a part and are use to make other machines. Also, we take the old robots apart and have the rookie members put the robot back together. We feel that the students can learn from doing this.

[Pirate_Nelly354]

We had 3 past robots in our robotics room. We take some of the part sometimes. Now with this season robot.....it will not be touch! First robot I helped build. I don't want it destroyed T_T