Robot Spec Comparison

People in the Ant-Scale competition are close to finishing their robots, so I put together a spec sheet template to compare our designs. I put my first 5 robots specs in as examples (I will only enter robot #5 for this competition). In 2 weeks we will do the robot Olympics and soccer games to complete this project.

Spec Comparison Template [Link]

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Robot Motors

A brushed motor without gear reduction is practically useless for robotics. To move things (perform mechanical work) we could use gear-head brush motors, servos or stepping motors (yes, there's others...solenoids, piezo thing-a-ma-jigs, etc.) For locomotion, high-torque and 'horse-power', nothing beats a good gear-head motor. The gear reduction effectively multiplies the torque of the original motor, trading speed for 'umph'. The link below takes you to a matrix of the motors that I have evaluated so far.

Motor Matrix: [Link]

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