I’ve been showing videos to my students of some of my favorite past robots and games in FIRST Robotics and mentioned mini-bots getting loose on fields during Logomotion (2011).
Does anyone have footage of mini-bots who were launched prematurely? Bonus points for footage of mini-bots becoming roadkill.
I will have to dig for a photo… but I do have a Roadkill Minibot story. Our robot was on the way to an outreach event strapped to the back of my car (on one of those platforms that go in to the hitch). I fogot that minibot was not secure and drove away. When I got to the school, minibot was gone. I retraced my route and found minibot squashed in the middle of the road. Several people still hold a grudge on that one…
Minibot was retreived from the intersection and his carcas became the core of the IronMan sculpure that Boneyard Robotics takes to competition. So minibot (Davey) lasted longer than the main robot (Dutch) before recycling…