Personally, I’d like to see some more parallel lift designs, along with some fast/accurate claw based robots. I’ve had enough with the “zippy” (One large tread set that swings).
I’ve also yet to see many double jointed arm robots with treads.
Anyone else looking forward to any robots at dallas?
You mean like 417? They had a double-jointed arm with a claw in December, and replaced the claw with a 4-cube belt in January. For Worlds, though, they’ve built a new robot with a double-lifting, one-joint arm.
When you take almost perfect information from the Web, and combine it with a single goal, I think you should expect convergent evolution. Only one of our robots had twin belts in December, now all of them do. (OK, 420 doesn’t, but they didn’t build their robot until March.)
I agree that there are many dual tread-type robots out there, including my team’s 2 robots (24B and 24C). We competed at a mid-Nov event where we had the only design like that, but they have quickly grown in numbers. Our team members have tried modifying the design and evolving into something else with one of the robots. But we have found at the 4 or 5 subsequent events we attended that the simple, highly reliable original design (the robot we left as-is) just seems to hold up very well against other designs and we continued to win with it - well, until we met up with Team 44, Green Eggs, two weeks ago. So the modified robot has been changed back to the original design. We will see how they hold up in Dallas…
If you want to talk to a NZ team stop by our team (2900a) we have a interesting you might say robot (well we haven’t seen the idea before) it may not be the most aesthetically appealing robot but when you see what we did you will understand why (im sick of working in a 18 by 18 by 8 inch cube:()
Feel free to post pictures in the Gallery. It’s too late now to build a new robot, so it’s time to start adding data for the scouts.
By the way, anyone building a new robot this weekend will be at a serious disadvantage at Dallas. You won’t have time to program or test drive it. Our two highest-scoring teams have robots that are 2-1/2 months and six weeks old. The teams that built new or heavily-modified robots are still coming up to speed. Just a suggestion… a pretty good robot that you really know how to drive is better than a wonderbot that was finished the night before.
420 looks cool enough that it’s in a class of its own. I want to see it drive for no other reason than the cool factor. On the other hand, I want to see bots other than the vanilla dual tread on a pivot on a tower design