Robot Ethics?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

If you have the space, please leave it intact. I can't even tell you how many times I've wished we didn't break down our 2003 and 2002 bots.

[Koko Ed]

You can learn alot from your previous robots. We have over 15 years of robots sitting around our site and you can guess how that helped us immensely. It even was one of the main reasons we got a Motorola Quality award (as read during the presentation). It's worth your time to keep that robot intact because you can learn alot from it no matter where it finished in the competition.

[Steve S.]

AHHH!!! DONT DO IT!!! you should really keep it intact for at least 1 yr after the game, its good to teach new members on.
and i like your teams design this past season

[brandy836]

Our team has doesn’t have much room to keep old robots, but we try to keep at least one robot fully intact at all times. If you have the room to keep it, then you should. There’s always stuff you can either learn from it, or do with it.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

You can learn alot from your previous robots. We have over 15 years of robots sitting around our site and you can guess how that helped us immensely. It even was one of the main reasons we got a Motorola Quality award (as read during the presentation). It's worth your time to keep that robot intact because you can learn alot from it no matter where it finished in the competition.

We keep all of the team robots. The smaller, older ones decorate the walls of the classroom. The larger FIRST robots are stored safely. Last week the team took extra precautions to raise them off of the floor and cover them in plastic sheeting just in case there is another major roof leak over the summer break. There are so many uses to be had, so many opportunities. One that I can think of is how the new team members like to disassemble and reassemble parts of the robots as a learning process. I do have to admit to being sentimental towards the robots though - absotively posilutely.