2025
FIRST® REEFSCAPE
Robot - Nautilus
2024
FIRST® CRESCENDO
Robot - Baseline
Swerve drive, 4 camera full-field localization system , auto-level engage and, custom arm worm gearbox
2023
FIRST® Charged Up
Robot - Zeus
2022
FIRST Rapid React
Robot- RibbitReact
Compact control system housing and articulated multi-stage climber.
Roller cargo intake, and angle-able manipulator.
2019
FIRST Destination: Deep Space
Robot- W19-001
2018
FIRST Power Up
Robot- No Name
Openable roller intake, wrist height adjustment, dual moving stage elevator and winch climber.
Inspiration: Is a very cubic robot. Has a mouth (Ball Intake)
2017
FIRST Steamworks
Robot- Cubeasaurus
2016
FIRST Stronghold
Robot- BALLista
Inspiration: Looks like a Medieval Ballista and launches "boulders "(Foam Balls). 4 wheel drive, supplementary tank treads for traction, 91 lbs, 12 treaded wheels, lifts portcullis, moves Cheval de frise, shoots ball into high and low goal.
Inspiration: The robot had a slide drive, could move sideways like the Sidewinder Rattlesnake. Weighed 118 pounds, slide drive (was removed), 4 wheel drive, 4 omni-wheels for mobility, could lift 3-4 totes and a recycle bin
2015
FIRST Recycle Rush
Robot- Slidewinder
2014
Game- Aerial Assist
Robot- Ballrus
Inspiration: The robot has tusk-like protrusions, like a walrus. 112 pounds, 6 wheel drive, with the front 2 wheels as omni-wheels for added mobility, belt driven by VexPro shifters. Designed to intake and shoot the 24' ball. Shooting mechanism exerts up to 200 pounds of force and consists of 4 springs and an archery trigger. Worm gearbox and steel cable pull the trigger to fire the ball up to 50 feet
Inspiration: The robot climbs and hangs off pyramids, like an orangutan, and is orange. 113lbs, 4-wheel drive West Coast Drive, with ball casters at the back corners of the robot. Able to climb 60 feet up the pyramid with a four-hook setup, designed to be extremely stable. 2 wheel shooter with a 4 frisbee storage and can shoot a frisbee every .75 seconds. Fed by a human player by running the shooter backwards. Tilts to change the shooting angle.
2013
FIRST Ultimate Ascent
Robot- OrangaHang / Mk III
2012
FIRST Rebound Rumble
Robot- The Kraken
Inspiration: The intersection of the ball intakes with the transport belt is called the Bermuda Triangle, and all the belts resemble tentacles. Catchphrase: Release the Kraken! 119 pounds with ball-intakes on both sides and a 360-degree turret-shooter at the top. The turret received balls that were lifted up a conveyor from their storage bin within the frame. This robot contained a bridge-pusher to lower the bridge. Programmed in C++. 6-wheel tank drive with the middle wheels lower, to lower the turning friction.
Inspiration: The long arm/neck makes it look like a giraffe. It was similar to Tube-A-Saurus-Rex. 115 pounds, 4 motor drive with gear shifting (one solenoid valve and piston for each side of the drive train), a 6 wheel drop center for lower friction turns, pneumatics, and LED rings on the camera for retroreflective tape detection. The arm was designed to lower in both the front and back of the robot with a shoulder motor and worm gear assembly that rotated around a fixed gear on the frame. The head allowed for manipulation using 2 independently controlled rollers. One on the top “jaw” and one on the bottom “jaw”. It could suck in a tube by driving the rollers forward and spit it out by driving the rollers backward. It could also rotate the tubes up and down by driving the rollers opposite each other. Gas shocks and springs counterbalanced the weight of the arm, and a pneumatic wrist kept the head stored within the frame (two possible positions of wrist deployment: stowed and tube hanging). This robot also had the ability to deploy a Minibot(move in, move out).
2011
FIRST Logomotion
Robot- G-Wrath
Deployed on a drawer slide powered by a pneumatic cylinder. When the Minibot reached the pole it was held in place by magnets. Retracting the deployment arm triggered the power button. To detect the distance from the pole tower, we used Sharp Infrared Proximity Sensors GP2Y0A21YK
2010
FIRST Breakaway
Robot- Hammerhead
Inspiration: The robot is shaped like the dorsal fin of a shark, and it has a hammer-like kicker on the front. 4 motor tank drive with omni wheels in the back. The hanging mechanism was a hook velcroed to the end of the deployment pole. The pole would come up, grab onto the rung, and retract. While the pole retracted, the Velcro came off, and we would winch ourselves up to the top. The winch used a ratchet that allowed movement in one direction but prohibited movement in another. Able to hold on to the ball while swiveling, creating a dribble. Used vision to detect the ellipses of the targets over the goals (We used the size of the largest circle (in pixels) and estimated the distance to the goal to give us the desired kicker power. The formula seems to be 0.05/(# pixels of the radius of the largest circle) the result limited to lie between 0 and 1, formed the demand for the kicker motor.) The kicker's arm rest position was at about 10 o’clock, swung clockwise, and hit the ball at about 7 o’clock.
2009
FIRST Lunacy
Robot- LunaBeast
Inspiration: The robot is beastly and played the game Lunacy. Fired large quantities of game pieces. It was able to hold 12 game pieces with a shooting accuracy of about 85%. The team designed a two-channeled cartridge to hold the game pieces.
Inspiration: The name was a play on words of the Bullfrog, because it held a ball in its mouth, making it look like the large, inflated neck of a Bullfrog. The manipulator was able to hurdle the large trackballs and place them on the rack. Autonomous was programmed to make it around the track, crossing up to four lines. This robot had the ability to acquire balls off of the overpass and had an elevator to lift and lower game pieces.
2008
FIRST Overdrive
Robot- Ball Frog
2007
Game- FIRST Rack N' Roll
Robot- Tube-A-Saurus Rex
Inspiration: The robot’s head, the claw/sucker, looked like a mouth, and was then painted with dinosaur teeth. The sucker consisted of two motors and two rubber belts and applied constant pressure to the tube in order to easily suck up and spit out tubes. The claw weighed at least 10 lbs. Instead of the traditional one-pole arm, we welded three metal tubes into triangle shape to give the claw maximum support. This arm was connected to the tower, which behind its plastic sheets hid a triple–layer electronics cake, designed to take up as little space as possible. The drive train of this robot blended design features from the tank-drive and kit-bot designs. It had a six-wheel-drive skid-steer layout. For wheels, 6” Skyway Caster wheels were used in conjunction with the hub-kits provided by FIRST in the kit of parts. All gears used in the transmissions were cut from straight-cut steel spur gear stock, 20 diametrical pitch, 20* pressure angle. The housing and structure material was 6061-T6 aluminum.
2006
FIRST Aim High
2005
FIRST Triple Play
2004
FIRST Frenzy
2003
FIRST Stack Attack
2002
FIRST Zone Zeal
2001
Diabolical Dynamics
2000
Co-operitition FIRST
1999
FIRST Double Trouble
Robot- Terminator
1996
Hexagon Havoc
Robot- Stealth II
1995
FIRST Ramp N' Roll
Robot- Stealth
Championships Winner