This thread made me curious. What are some cool/unique robots that come to mind from before 2020?
I am a fan of 1114 2019 robot Snowstorm. It was extremely high performing but its design could have been built by a medium-low resource team.
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2010 469
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971 2016
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I’m not sure why, but the 2005 179 robot always comes up in my mind as one of the most memorable robots of the past. Their fork for picking up tetras was really good.
67 that yr too.
25 had a really good Aim High robot if I recall
Of course 71 goes without saying.
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Generic pick but I don’t care.
The one, the only, 254’s 2018 bot.
2018 FRC Season – FIRST Power Up | Team 254
Undefeated in official play with the forklift style buddy climb. Absolute unit in my opinion.
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I’ll give mine going back to when I started in FRC in 2010.
2010 - 469
2011 - 180, 233
2012 - 118
2013 - 148
2014 - 254
2015 - 4613 / 1678
2016 - 971
2017 - 254
2018 - 254
2019 - 1323
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1114 in 2008 was so so good.
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2019
- 971: Such a cool and unique design to use suction to hold both game pieces. No matter how much the pieces flailed around it never let go.
2017
- 340: One of my all time favorite specialty robot designs. Super effective gear scoring robot.
2016
- 330: I will never forget the the self-righting at champs to win Einstein’s matches.
2013
- 610: Even when we faced them at Granite State (their first event of the season) they were already on another level even at that event.
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As a high school student watching 233 in 2006 was unbelievable.
Team 40 robots in the early/mid 2000’s were incredible.
1717 doesn’t get as much mention anymore, but they built some of the best robots of the early 2010’s era.
67’s 2012 robot will always be one of my favorites
It’s funny to look back at some of these older robots, it was a much different challenge with few cots parts.
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Though I was still a good amount of years away from joining FRC during this time, based on my historical knowledge and personal liking, these are my favorite robots.
2019: 2910; 1323
2018: 254; 4613
2017: 118; 1986
2016: 330; 2056
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Team 60 in 2002 and 2004. Team 233 in 2008.
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will always be my favorite robot of all time… very competitive and the first to do everything that’s standard practice years later. The subsystem collision avoidance is :chef’s kiss:
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I’m sensing a theme with this specific team in this thread, but 1114’s “Simbot Jordan” from 2012 is one of my all time favourites.
I still remember seeing that robot for the first time that year (my rookie year), and being in absolute awe. THAT was the kind of robot I wanted to aspire to be able to build; Clean. Simple. Robust.
Also an honorable mention for 1717’s 2012 bot. I’ve still got a scale wooden model somewhere of that machine from the IRI auction in 2017
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I’m 100% stan of 71’s chokehold bot. Brilliant.
We had a couple of cool ones:
- In 2012 – the motor-in-serve pic: 3928 Swerve Module
- In 2019 - the leaping face-plant high climb https://youtu.be/OqWHhMFY66A?si=ZHt6BtnMj9FbrwHF&t=152 (watch blue hab)
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