pic: Robot in 3 Days: Complete

[James1902]

Originally Posted by dodar

This is an amazing looking robot and seemed to function extremely well. I wonder, though, will teams look at teams who build a very similar robot to this ,as if they just recreated this robot, in a different view? Even though I do believe that this concept has been thought of by alot of teams and even i thought of something very similar to this before this was a finished product.

They might, in fact some people probably will, and that's their loss because then they missed the point of the whole project, or at least what I saw the point to be.

All ideas come from external sources, be it design concepts, gameplay ideas or even build materials every idea forms from at least the seed of another idea. Isn't that why we looked at match video from 2006 last year or video from 2007 two years ago?

The point now is to make it better. This group decided to do it in three days, but we have 6 more weeks! Imagine the leaps this design can take with all of that time! So now, anyone who has an idea like the ones used for this robot can take it and mold it, shape it, refine it, hone it untill it's perfect. They can practice with it and design programs for it to make their driving better, they can figure out potential fail points and learn how to fix them.

It's essentially an open source prototype that iR3 has graciously given back to the community, and what teams do with it from there is all up to them.

So we might see robots that look and act like this one, but it won't be the same, and I think the overall competition will be better because of it.

Robot turned out great guys, thanks for all the hard work.