The 2025 Robonauts FRC Everybot Low Resource Build

The 2025 Robonauts Everybot

The Robonauts FRC Everybot is an affordable, competitive, and elegant robot that can be built with only common tools, a basic 3D printer, items purchased from your local hardware store, and online from various FRC retailers with a budget of approximately $1500 in addition to what comes in the FIRST Kit of Parts.

The mission of FRC Everybot is to provide a comprehensive set of build resources to field a competitive and affordable robot intended to play the FIRST Robotics Competition; specifically targeted towards under-resourced and under-mentored teams. A successful Everybot will inspire individual students, teams, and mentors while promoting team sustainability.

The Robonauts Everybot crew is excited to be delving into FRC Game. We also wanted to stress the importance of prototyping on your own and learning things that may not be included in this season’s Everybot build. We hope that the Everybot will inspire teams to expand on this design to create an even more valuable asset to any alliance.

The Everybot Program has been growing and evolving each season. Each year we learn new ways of reaching our goals, we also attempt things that don’t necessarily meet the goals that we have set out to achieve. In past seasons we have aimed towards creating the most capable robots. Last season we looked at making the decision to Kitbot as easy as possible. This season we are aiming to make the best addition to a competitive alliance. We have seen a consistent shortcoming of being able to mesh with differing play styles as well as the lack of ability to contribute to alliance rank points. This season, the Everybot Crew will be focusing on alliance strength. Strength is not limited to raw score alone. Strength in an alliance comes from score, strategy, and the ability for robots to mesh into a unified strategy.

One of the most valuable aspects of the FIRST Robotics Competition is the human connections forged throughout the season, particularly at events. This year, we hope to promote positive human interactions before every match through a design that integrates seamlessly into any alliance. We believe that creating a robot capable of contributing effectively to alliance Rank Points is the best way to achieve this goal.

The Everybot Crew is also excited about the 2nd annual KitBot. Last season we set out to only add to the Kitbot. This was to ensure that a team did not have to disassemble their Kitbot to build the Everybot. This season we are allowing ourselves to decide to either add to the Kitbot or to utilize the Kitbot parts in the Everybot build.

CAD software is a very useful tool for building FIRST robots. We will be designing the FRC Everybot using OnShape and intend to design the robot to be easy to iterate on and customize by using this easily accessible CAD package. If you are new to using OnShape or CAD in general FRC Team 3005, The RoboChargers have excellent OnShape training resources.

The 2025 Robonauts Everybot will be revealed live on FIRST Canada LIVE! on Tuesday, January 14th at 7:00 PM ET.

The CAD, code, bill of materials, and comprehensive build documentation will be posted shortly after the robot reveal, both in this thread and on our website: 118Everybot.org

As an additional resource we have The Robonauts Everybot Community Discord where you can share your build progress and ask for help building your FRC Everybot or FIRST KitBot.

The Robonauts are in the final stages of completing our “2025 Everybot Will” list, which will be added to this post later today.

We are humbled that we get to continue providing this resource to the community. The Robonauts and Everybot Crew wish everyone good luck in FIRST Robotics Competition, Reefscape!


The Robonauts 118 2025 FRC Everybot Reveal Video:

The Robonauts 118 Everybot 2025

The Robonauts’ 2025 FRC Everybot is an affordable, competitive, and elegant robot that can be built using basic tools and items found in the Kit of Parts, common FRC suppliers, your local hardware store, & a basic 3D printer. The 2025 Everybot utilizes a majority of the KitBot components to offer a clear and simple upgrade path. The mechanisms can be built and installed independently and can also be incorporated into different robot designs. The 2025 Everybot costs around $1400 U.S. dollars when built from the KitBot & Rookie Kit of Parts. The 2025 Everybot weighs approximately 80lbs without bumpers when complete.

Official Evergreen Resources

Description Link
Everybot Website Everybot Website
Everybot Documentation Everybot Docs Website
Everybot Discord Everybot Discord
Robonauts Website Robonauts Website
NASA RAP Design Guide NASA RAP Design Guide

2025 FRC Everybot Specific Resources

Description Link Original Post
CAD 2025 Everybot CAD - Onshape Post
BOM 2025 Everybot BOM Post
KOP Chassis Gear Reduction am-4665 , am-4714 Post
Overview Robonauts' 2025 Everybot | Everybot Docs Post
3D Printer Files 3DP Files Post
FIRST Canada LIVE! Live Reveal and Questions Thread

Supplier Specific Resources

Supplier Link
Thrifty Bot 2025 FRC Everybot Specific Page
REV Robotics 2025 FRC Everybot Specific Page
AndyMark Coming Soon!
SendCutSend Everybot Barb Deep Climb Plates Cart Link

2025 Specific Resources Still To Be Released

Release Order Description Release Date
1. Deep Climb Documentation 01/17/2025
2. Bumper Documentation 01/17/2025
3. Superstructure Documentation 01/17/2025
4. Code Documentation Coming Soon!
5. Algae Mechanism Documentation 01/18/2025
6. Coral Mechanism Documentation 01/18/2025
7. Onshape Swerve Chassis Generator Coming Soon!
8. Swerve Everybot CAD Coming Soon!
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The “Robot Will List” is the way the 118 & the Everybot Crew define the build and design requirements. The listed requirements are independent of how the robot is going to accomplish the task.

The 2025 Robonauts FRC Everybot Will:

  • Drive & LEAVE
  • Hold CORAL
  • Receive CORAL from CORAL STATION
  • Score CORAL in L1 (trough)
  • Hold ALGAE
  • Pick up ALGAE from the FLOOR
  • Score ALGAE in PROCESSOR
  • PARK in BARGE ZONE
  • Climb on CAGE
  • Use Standard AM KoP Chassis
  • Play Defense
  • Be robust enough to withstand contacting CAGES while driving under Alliance Specific Barge Zones

The 2025 FRC Everybot will be able to play the game with both types of game objects available. Having the versatility to manipulate the Coral or the Algae is one of the ways that Everybot will more seamlessly fit into any alliance.

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Is not specifying which CAGE configuration intentional to give you more time to figure it out? :eyes:

Anyways, love what y’all do, looking forward to this year as an “improvement” on the KitBot and having the usual: “why didn’t I think of that?” moment.

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Excited to the newest reveal of the EveryBot. Our Team Alpha students are excited to get started on the build.

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Which cage?
Edit: Maybe I sent this too quickly, thinking about it now if it’s scoring L1 and processor it’s probably deep. Can’t wait to see what cool mech this might be!

We have decided not to expand on the KitBot but will be repurposing as many parts as we’re able to. The chassis will stay the same size as the KitBot but the Everybot bumpers will not be the same size as the KitBot bumpers.

If teams are eager to start, we encourage them to assemble their chassis early but would recommend holding off on the bumpers until we release the design. However, we highly recommend teams buy replacement gears for their drivetrain gearboxes. Based off our initial testing we have found the KitBot’s listed 15ft/s (AndyMark’s User Guide has the provided 8.45:1 listed as 12.7ft/s) is far too hard to control. We recommend the 10.71:1 as listed in the table on the bottom of page 3 in the AM14U6 User’s Guide. We will be releasing a more detailed chassis manual upon release.

You will need 2x of each:
Am-4714 1/2 hex steel 48T
Am-4665 3/8 hex steel 16T

We’re excited to release the Everybot next Tuesday at 6pm CST on FIRST Canada LIVE!

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We had a lot of fun building the FTC Everybot this year. Looking forward to what y’all come up with for FRC.

Can’t believe I have to watch the Canadian Livestream to see the reveal of a robot being built right up the road…

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Oh really the gear box ratio that comes with the kit of parts us to hard to control? Is there any major changes with using the 10.71:1?

We’ve had the KitBot built since kickoff and after driving it for the last few days we’ve decided that to more meaningfully contribute to an alliance, a gear ratio change is incredibly beneficial.

The supplied gear ratio makes it very hard to turn controllably. We believe that the lower reduction will greatly increase controllability and therefor the effectiveness of the robot.

There are no major changes in the construction of the gearbox other than using the new gears.

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Does anyone know what specific gears are need for the gear ratio change to 10.71:1 because I would rather not buy a new Toughbox

Check the AndyMark site for the Toughbox; they almost certainly have the required gears linked.

I checked and there are nothing.

Is it not listed by @Jennakay here?

Clicking the part number as linked in the table:
4714: Standard 20 DP Gears - AndyMark, Inc
4665: Standard 20 DP Gears - AndyMark, Inc

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Thank you.

Ah sorry.

Weight relieved? or not

Hey Mako,
The types of questions you are asking could be more easily and effeciently answered in the Everybot Community Discord. It’s a bit more of a casual and relaxed environment filled with people who are all interested in building robots similar to the robot you are interested in building.

I’d recommend you ask these questions there! See you there soon

We are going to be posting more in depth documentation upon release of the 2025 Everybot on Tuesday!

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Hi everyone! We thought we would give teams planning to build the Everybot a chance to use your FIRST Choice credits on relevant Everybot components. The linked spreadsheet includes all of the components or functionally equivalent replacements in FIRST Choice that are used on this year’s Everybot and not included in the KitBot. The list we created does not use all of the credits available to teams, so we recommend adding other items that you believe will benefit you in future years, such as the Fluke multimeter, Molex SL kit, spare control system components, or your preference of the brushless motor options.

2025 FIRST Choice Everybot Priority List

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