FRC 233: THE PINK TEAM Builds SWAT Robot
PDBot, a SWAT robot designed and built by FIRST Robotic Competition students from The Pink Team for their local police department.
PDBot as it was built (left); PDBot as conceptualized in PTC's Pro/ENGINEER (now rebranded as Creo Elements/Pro).
When Detective Christopher Cochie from Rockledge Police Department, Florida, first approached FIRST Robotic Competition (FRC) Team 233 to help build a robot for his SWAT team, he had something fairly simple in mind, like a remote-controlled miniature car with a camera mounded on the hood. The team took his ideas, added some of their own, and came back to him instead with a state-of-the-art robot that could climb up steps, trudge through mud, toss a phone, launch flash bangs, and do much more.
Its creators, a group of students from FRC Team 233, were well-versed in the mechanics of robotics, thanks to the competitions they’d participated in. Given the chance to help their local police officers, they jumped at the opportunity, enlisting the help of their teacher and FIRST mentor Marian Passmore and their FIRST sponsor NASA. (Team members were mostly from the Cocoa Beach area, roughly 15 miles away from Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center.)
Another FRC team working their magic in their neighborhood. FRC Team 233, The Pink Team (http://www.thepinkteam.org/) built a SWAT robot for the Police Department in Rockledge, Florida.
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