In 2002 change was brought to Greater Rochester Robotics. We again had high expectations for our team and our robot. We were beginning to grow out of the machining capabilities available at the Nortel Networks facilities so we teamed up with Precision Weld to help us. Their facility was much better equipped but smaller and was only able to accommodate a small number of students and mentors at one time. We were a team split between two places. Part of the team worked in one location while the rest worked in another. Still we managed to put together our most technological robot yet. With the help of some now team less RIT students and mentors, we put together our most automated robot to date. With many functions automated it would make the work of the driver that much easier.

This year we attended the New York City Regional. On Friday we were awarded the Delphi Driving Technology Award and felt we had a good chance to win the competition. We again went on to perform very well during the 2 days of competition and found ourselves in second going into the elimination rounds. There we made our selections and again were knocked out in the first round of eliminations.

We again decided that we could do better and went on to the Championship Event looking for more success. With a few modifications made to the robot we felt we had a very good chance to improve our performance from NYC. We again were selected for the elimination rounds by team 329, another Nortel Networks team. There we went on to knock off the number one seed, and now were faced with a very tough TechnoKats alliance. They went on to beat us in three very close matches and we went home empty handed, but not discouraged.