Thank you kindly! I means a lot coming from someone who makes the best videos from the best robots and has been doing so for far longer than I ever have. Your videos have in many ways been an inspiration to me, and I'm always excited to see what your team puts out next. - Hunter, Team President & Media Lead
This is high praise coming from a mentor that has been inspiring our students and mentors to reach higher for years. I can't wait for your new unveil video to come out, and I hope we get to see you in Houston again.
We were about to name our robot Atlas, but we ended up with GladOS (Team name is the Neurotoxins(In case you didn't get that it is a portal reference))
Yes we do! The aluminum bar you see prominently at 1:05 and the mechanism shown at 1:09 is used to line up the robot for climbing, as well as pushing against the lip of the scale when only one side has a robot. While it obviously doesn't make the robot perfectly straight as shown with the only one bot climbs in the video, it does prevent the robot from completely tipping over or providing an extreme tilt for the robot on the ramp to fall off of. In addition, we have braces made from a mix of carbon fiber and aluminum to prevent the elevator from bending to one side.
WOW was the only word I could say but also a word I could not only say one time...This is surely one the greatest bots right now. Do you guys possibly drive the lift with the "threaded rod" at 0:49? And will it be okay to know where you guys got that from?
Did you guys think about your climber arms blocking other robots or potentially tipping them when they drive up? (They might hit the scale and fall out)
We have seen this problem and have added wedges to make it easier for them to get on. The nice thing we found about no top plate is it allows for their wheels to catch on the the cross support and keep them from slipping off.
It can grab a cube in virtually any orientation (including narrow/on its side) with about the same difficulty as the orientation shown in the reveal video.
