1058’s 2003 (rookie year) frame has been repurposed into a couch robot for demos. 2008 is the oldest one mechanically intact, 2010 is the oldest functional one.
229 uses 2013 for demos, but I believe there are older ones in a storage space.
228’s 2012 robot is the only one that is still together and fully functional. Finished dismantiling the 2013 and 2015 robots at the beginning of this build season. I’m hoping we’ll keep the 2016 robot together for awhile - it’s really easy to transport and it’s got some cooler features for demos and stuff.
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.
1102 still has my 2010 FTC robot running.
4901 has Sandstorm I and it still can run. It would just have to be fixed. (2014) Then I think we will be keeping this year’s model Sandstorm III around for quite some time.
Our 2004 bot is used many times for testing or presentations
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.
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.
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.
I’ve also heard rumors that one or two of the very very early BeachBots (or pre-BeachBots) (robots, not team members) are or were in storage at a sponsor’s facility. It’s been a while since I heard those rumors, though… the robots are older than you (no, I’m not kidding–the robots in question were built in the late 1990s) and wouldn’t have their control systems (FIRST policy at the time was to send the systems back every year).
2410’s oldest running robot is from Breakaway, 2010. She’s been gutted and had her electrical components replaced, but mechanically she’s still the same. After that, the rebuild for 2013 is functional (I personally more or less destroyed the robot from the actual season during the Razorback regional that year…I drove a bit aggressively), and I think the frame of our 2012 robot is still around somewhere…
Our oldest robot is our 2016 robot 
As old as most current seniors in high school. Its all intact except the wheels we “borrowed” for the 2001 robot.
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.
Same here.
We probably won’t have to salvage this year’s robot, I hope. It really is a great bot. The main reason that we’ve taken apart our old robots is space. And parts. We’ve worked out of a closet up until this year, when we were able to get half of a classroom as a shop.
I believe our 2013 robot is still sitting somewhere untouched, but our 2014 bot is the oldest one we have which is still in driving condition (and the only one other than our current robot and its test clone). We keep it around for outreach purposes, although last I checked our pneumatics need to be fixed for it to return to peak condition.
Repairing it during preseason this year (after we totaled a number of parts on the thing due to tough defense and a powerful shooter) actually made for a great project to get people engaged on the team and sharpen skills for build season.
We don’t keep most of our robots. Most of the parts are recycled for the next year…
But one of the few ones that have stayed ever since was our very first robot, Bob. He’s in our Awards Room, so we haven’t operated the robot in YEARS. I’m sure it’s still working though, underneath all the collected dust.
If you don’t know of the story, the Fembots built Bob at Silicon Valley Regional back in 2001. The Fembots arrived with materials and the Kit of Parts and were able to build the robot with the help of several other teams – and they built it in 6 hours!
41 still has our 2008 robot working and nearly fully functional. I believe the IR board needs to be reflashed (have the dump somewhere), and one of the fisher price gearboxes needs to be replaced. We used it last year in a demo.
Here is a look at the control system mentioned earlier in this thread…
That little gold box in the second picture is the Tekin speed controllers we had to use before IFI came along with the 883. It is about 1 x 2" and would smoke at about 20 amps.
We used drill batteries to power the drive system in those robots because we used actual drills to drive the wheels as you can see in picture 3. Oh, and we didn’t have any way to distribute power, no PDP, no breaker panel.
These pictures were taken during LRI training this year.
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…
135 has every robot since 1998. Most still have all of the parts on them but 2015 is the only one that we still use (due to the control systems on older robots and the fact that some of them are broken from being used at competition). Our coach that started the team does not like to take apart the robots so we try not to remove anything from them. It’s very interesting to look at a wooden robot that’s almost 20 years old.
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