Similar Bot Designs

[Mike Schreiber]

Originally Posted by kenavt

About 910's robot:

I suggest a subcategory. Offensively-focused bots (subsection of tunnel bots), ones who are designed for scoring.

I'm just curious when 910 started going through the tunnel...

And aren't most tunnel bots designed for scoring?

[jspatz1]

Originally Posted by JABot67

Yeah, I think I have another category: robots like 330, 2016, 71, 2753, and others that have hooks coming out of the middle of their robots.

I think 1918 and 910 belong in their own group along with 1986 and other wide robots.

Perhaps another category for wide robots with swerve: 70, 494, 20, 11, 226, etc.

1986 would be in the swerve group.

[hektormagee]

I know that there are tons of different arm designs, but i was referring to the basic shape of the robot. For example, 70, with their mechanism on, would fall under the Deflector Category. Without, it would fall under the Tunnel Box Bot design.

[BJC]

Perhaps you could break this down further:

(Zone Change)
Tunnel-Bots
Bump-Bots
Both-Bots

(Hanging)
Scorpio Hang- vertical bar
Generic Hang- top bar

(Ball Magnet)
Pincher BM
Roller BM
Pusher

(zone preferance)
Far Zone
Middle Zone
Home Zone
Anywhere
So team 33 would be an Scorpio Bump Pincher Anywhere Bot.

Hummmm... What other categories am I missing?

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by BJC

...

0Ball Magnet)
Pincher BM
Roller BM
Pusher
...

You forgot suckers here. Those that use suction to hold the ball. I have seen a few.

And our bot would tend to be offensive but can be defensive. We just like offense better. Pref. to mid and close zones, but start in back.

[BJC]

Originally Posted by apalrd

And our bot would tend to be offensive but can be defensive. We just like offense better. Pref. to mid and close zones, but start in back.

Andrew, thats what "Anywhere" means. Besides we have played some pretty good defense before (Troy comes to mind) even if we generally like to be scoring. Therefore, because we have quite a flexible robot that can easily play any zone I put us in the "Anywhere" section.

[Norman J]

Originally Posted by apalrd

And our bot would tend to be offensive but can be defensive. We just like offense better. Pref. to mid and close zones, but start in back.

Unless we're playing 469

[Tyler Hicks]

Originally Posted by BJC

Perhaps you could break this down further:

(Zone Change)
Tunnel-Bots
Bump-Bots
Both-Bots

(Hanging)
Scorpio Hang- vertical bar
Generic Hang- top bar

(Ball Magnet)
Pincher BM
Roller BM
Pusher

you forgot the types of kickers...such as long distant kicker, short range kicker...etc