pic: THINK PINK - Final Cut

[Gabe Salas Jr.]

Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

...So how do you guys treat it?

We treat her with respect.

Originally Posted by phrontist

Is that robot even touched by human hands during build? It looks as though you just program the CNC to carve it out of a solid block of alumnium ;-)

We spend most of the build perfecting the design on CAD. At Week 3 we start building parts we definitely know we are going to use (part of the chasis, gears, electrical grid, etc). Week 4 we try to finalize a majority of parts on CAD. Week 5 we slowly start building parts of the robot for testing. Towards the end of Week 5 we start building parts like there is no tomorrow. At Week 6 we assemble and powder coat the robot. And we pray that we have enough time for programming and practice driving with the robot.