How much does your robot weigh?

[moogboy]

My team has weighed our robot minus a few very important subsystems, and we are alarmingly close to the weight limit. Naturally our next thought was how much does everyone else's robot weigh now? What are you all doing to remove weight? Thanks!

[DonRotolo]

Holes. Lots and lots of holes. They don't weigh.

[CalTran]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=98765

You can look through that thread and get some pretty good answers for both pre and post building.

Short answer? Swiss cheese the robot.

[blackrocks0]

If you do swiss cheese it, watch out for how strong the areas will be after swiss cheesing them.
Also, think about getting rid of unnecessary components of your robot (you should think through this a lot).

I can't believe it but we're going to be....under the weight limit this year. Our robot is going to be anywhere from 90-100 pounds. This hasn't happened to 256 EVER! The scary thing is, though, once we're all underweight, we'll add more weight to get to 120 pounds, since that is our weight goal for this year (Gotta balance those bridges, you know.)

[JChavis]

Well, for now, our robot weighs only about 65-75 lbs, and that's not even with our lift and shooter systems yet...We can't totally get a clear exact weight because our force plate isn't big enough to fit our robot.

However, we would like to make this robot as close to the weight limit as possible, compared to our rookie robot last year that weighed only about 98 lbs and costs less than $1100 minus the 2011 KOP parts.

[372 lives on]

roght now our robot weighs 15 pounds.

we have a few more "minor" additions before it is done.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by 372 lives on

roght now our robot weighs 15 pounds.

I hope that is withOUT the battery, otherwise you has a slight issue (The battery IS 15lbs...) XD

[JosephC]

Our robot will weigh 119.999999999 lbs roughly

[Ekcrbe]

Originally Posted by JosephC

Our robot will weigh 119.999999999 lbs roughly

On a serious note, we are looking at 98 lbs in-bag and a ~16-lb withheld shooter, plus some minor bits and pieces, so it will probably be around 114 lbs. I don't know if we are planning to put a 6-lb weight on.

[MrForbes]

Good question...it was 110 before we added what we think was five pounds. We have a lighter appendage in the bag to fix it if there's a problem.

[Chris_Ely]

My team's robot wayed 128 pounds 4 days ago . We put it on a swiss cheese diet, and now it ways 119.7 pounds. We ordered plastic air tanks to replace our metal tanks which should save us 2 pounds.

[372 lives on]

Originally Posted by CalTran

I hope that is withOUT the battery, otherwise you has a slight issue (The battery IS 15lbs...) XD

weird our batter doesnt weigh 15 lbs. no fair you get more power !!!!!

[CalTran]

Well, 15ish lbs, give or take

[Ekcrbe]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Well, 15ish lbs, give or take

The last battery I checked that we had was 12.55 lbs, but I haven't averaged any more.