How old is your oldest robot

[natejo99]

We have our 1995 bot still, but not sure it's in running condition.

[Moskowapplepi]

2013, 2012, and 2011 are still in the shop with 2013 the only fully functional we salvaged 2014 and 2015 for parts

[Ben Martin]

2006, from back when TechFire was named something completely different (BearBotics I think). The team shut down for two years after that before it was rebooted by completely new people at a new organization (it really should have been a rookie team). Somehow this robot has survived.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

All of our 21 robots but two can be retrieved from storage in a day or two. 1996 was mostly plywood and we didn't think to keep it. Our 1997 robot is on display at First HQ. It is the one that goes up to the ceiling (actually can climb over 15 ft.). It does not have 111 on the side as that was before permanent team numbers were assigned. 2006 is in need of some TLC as we have used for demos for years. 2013 was tuned up last night for a demo coming up.

[pfreivald]

We barely have storage space for a single season, so our oldest robot was built in 2016.

[P.J.]

Our oldest robot is from 2005, and I believe that it is in near working order. I know we ran it a year or two ago.

We no longer have 2006 (scrapped because it was pretty much gutted and wasn't particularly good in the first place) or 2010 (I don't want to talk about it) but other than that we have the rest of our robots from 2005 on, and I think we could get them all into working order within an afternoon.

[MBimrose16]

Our latest bot is 2016, everything else has been scrapped for spare parts. We kept our 2014 bot around for a while because after the season we painted it and made it look like Gary the snail. While it was a fun show bot it wasn't our best creation and broke down constantly so we decided it was best to scrap it.

[NShep98]

Most of our previous year robots are in pieces, but I assume they could be reassembled and made to work (maybe). We still have our rookie 2007 robot (highest rookie seed [2nd] and Rookie All-Star award winner in Boston), and our 2015 robot is still intact.

[Type]

We have 2015 that just needs the Rio and a couple Jags put on and would be ready within a day if we needed to compete. We have some parts left from 2014 but this is basically the first year we have used all new parts.

[TNT280Staff]

Our 2004 bot is used many times for testing or presentations

[messer5740]

We completely repurposed our robot from last year to our robot this year. Haha so the only one we have is our current 2016 robot.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by messer5740

We completely repurposed our robot from last year to our robot this year.

I'm going to wait for clarification on what "completely repurposed our robot" means before frowning too hard at you. If you removed unmodified commercially available components and reused them this year, that's fine. But if you actually turned last year's robot into the one you're competing with this year, or if you are just reusing fabricated assemblies from the old robot, that's a problem.

[Matt C]

I have the 2002 Einstein Division Winner/ Championship Finalist alliance captain team's robot in somewhat OK, though slightly rusty condition (barn find?). I would need new drill motors to get it working.
2004 was the team's (311) last year, and their 2004 robot has been rebuilt with a cRio by the mentor of 871 who was a member of 311 in 2004.

[Brian C]

Originally Posted by Matt C

I have the 2002 Einstein Division Winner/ Championship Finalist alliance captain team's robot in somewhat OK, though slightly rusty condition (barn find?). I would need new drill motors to get it working.
2004 was the team's (311) last year, and their 2004 robot has been rebuilt with a cRio by the mentor of 871 who was a member of 311 in 2004.

Yeah. It looks like this these days. A few days of serious work and it can be operational again. We would need to find a couple of screamers.........

[messer5740]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I'm going to wait for clarification on what "completely repurposed our robot" means before frowning too hard at you. If you removed unmodified commercially available components and reused them this year, that's fine. But if you actually turned last year's robot into the one you're competing with this year, or if you are just reusing fabricated assemblies from the old robot, that's a problem.

We mainly used the metal, the pulleys, belts, all of the electronics...basically everything BUT our fabricated parts. Those are on our trophy shelf commemorating our rookie year. We wouldn't have done anywhere as well as we did this year if we just used our old robot.