There’s no real reason behind this, it’s just fun and curiosities sake. I’d think that quite a few teams have (mostly) finished bots by now, so it would be cool to see how hefty everyone’s (VRC) robots got.
Last I checked, my teams weighed in at 16.7 lbs (7.6kgs). Ours has 8 motors, but is 95% aluminum.
I learned my lesson with heavy, underpowered robots during tower takeover. That bot was probably ~20lbs but had two motor drive. Could barely make it through 1 match before the motors went into thermal shutdown.
So this season, we made sure our bot was as light as it could be, which is infinitely better.
our alliance team built a tank bot using 16 wheels and it weighed in to like 80 pounds, it even pressed into the arena floor and nothing could push them.
Is it just by itself, or when we are carrying 2 mobys? When we have two mobys (One modified why a bunch of steel, so extra 5 pounds), it can be around 30 pounds, ( I will try to get a picture next week).