The robot we designed for this competition is called Phage.  This article from Encyclopedia Britannica will help you understand why.  The birth of phage started with a live-action recreation of the game using the most complex robot of all - humans.  We played the game pushing a team member around a full size mock-up of the arena so we could truly figure out the game strategy and prioritize what functions we wanted to include in our design.  In addition to the whole game being virtual, part of our team, including some of our leaders were operating remotely from home.  As a result we relied heavily on technology this year!  We used Google Jamboard as a way to virtually collaborate and sketch out all of our brainstorming ideas.  From there, the prototyping included a mix of traditional cardboard and duct tape along with some CAD sketches.  Based on those prototypes we tested each idea against our go/no-go criteria, production feasibility, and then evaluated the potential performance benefits in comparison to each other.  The chosen prototypes went from conceptual design to detailed design and hopefully later into real production. The drawings below as well as the animation above were generated from the detailed CAD model produced using Autodesk Fusion360.