2025 REV ION FRC Starter Bot

Get ready to take on this season's game with a practical and adaptable platform built entirely with components from the  REV ION ecosystem.

The 2025 REV ION FRC Starter Bot is all about simplicity and adaptability, giving your team a solid foundation to start strong and evolve as the season unfolds. Whether you’re scoring coral or delivering algae, this bot has the tools you need to compete effectively—and plenty of room to innovate and make it uniquely your own. 

Featured Links:

• CAD Assembly - Onshape
• Bill of Materials
• Build Guide and Example Code coming soon!

Key Features:

Drivetrain

The swerve drivetrain has become the go-to basis for the majority of FRC teams. Swerve gives great maneuverability, allowing the robot to navigate the field in any direction. This makes tasks like aligning with the reef for coral scoring or repositioning in tight spaces easier. While we have chosen a swerve drive for the starter bot this year, we believe that flat tank drive can be effective this year since the majority of the scoring is on your side of the field and direct path cycles without defense will exist.

Manipulator and Scoring System

Coral Handling: A single-stage elevator with an integrated wrist allows for efficient intake of coral from the human player station and scoring on levels one, two, and three of the reef. The design emphasizes simplicity over scoring on all levels. With a single stage elevator you can easily score on levels 1 to 3. Given the number of scoring locations for coral, we felt that the slightly lower max score was worth the trade off for simplicity. Teams who want to score on L4, can adjust the geometry of the wrist or add another stage to the elevator, both of which are changes that are accessible upgrades for this design.

Algae Intake

A floor intake mechanism mounted to the chassis was added so that teams can streamline the delivery of algae to the processor and contribute to cooperative scoring strategies. The intake subsystem is completely self-contained with both the deployment and intake motors both mounted to the intake itself so this can be left off or added later as teams want.

Endgame

The current robot design doesn’t include an endgame mechanism. We felt that while the endgame is an important factor in this game the majority of the scoring will be from coral and algae. While not tested, we believe that teams can design or add cage hooks to the elevator to facilitate shallow cage climbs, expanding their capabilities without overhauling the robot.

We hope this design inspires your team and sparks fresh ideas as you strategize and innovate for this year's game. Start strong, evolve your strategy, and make it your own!

The CAD is available now, and within the next week, we'll also release step-by-step build guides, code, and additional documentation on our Kickoff Concepts documentation space.