The Future of FIRST: BaneBots?

[Greg Peshek]

Originally Posted by Budda648

I agree... combat robot components aren't always going to work for FIRST because they aren't made "built to last" timeframe as long as a FIRST robot.

I personally build combat robots. Although it may seem like the robots are smashed together and you hope the parts don't break, generally we try to engineer them so they don't break and last more than a whole competition (6ish fights if you go all the way). An article in this months SERVO actually talks about the engineering aspect of building the robots not to break.

I know if I put any part on my robots; gearboxes, electronics, anything I expect for what I paid for, I should get more than one competition out of them. Generally I like to get 4-5 competitions before I start replacing parts, although I have has some of my parts for 3 years now that still work.

Unfortunately I don't think the 56mm gearboxes will get tested in combat robots, due to the fact that motors such as Magmotors as included in battlekits.com will always out push these (based on my experience, not any real math behind that), but I'm thinking of incorporating these into my next combat robot to test the durability of these gearboxes.