What comes around only once a year in the life of the GoPiGo3 robot Carl?
August 22nd - Carl’s birthday - “Born” Aug 22, 2018
Carl is 7 years old today!
In his seven years, he has:
- been “awake” 93% (56,935 hours)
- traveled 3.9 km
- dock and undocked 5724 times
- turned around almost 6952 times
- burned through 12 sets of NiMH rechargeable batteries
- spoken 34380 phrases
Carl has achieved an amazing 93% “uptime” in his seven years of “life” (56935 hours as “Robot Carl”), and this last year only experienced one safety shutdown.
While robot Dave may hold the fastest recorded 1k time for a GoPiGo3, robot Carl has traveled 3.9 kilometers, (2.4 miles) and spun around the equivalent of nearly 7000 revolutions in 7 years, besting Dave by 0.6 kilometers in total travel.
Total Travel: 3888.6 m 12757.8 ft
Total Rotate: 2502674.4 deg 6951.8 revolutions
Total Motion: 84924.9 sec 23.590 hrs
Total Life: 56934.8 hrs percentInMotion: .04
Carl is quite “low maintenance” needing only 12 sets of new batteries in seven years.
TOTAL LIFE STATISTICS
Total Life: 56934.8 hrs since Aug 22,2018
Life this year: 7844.72 hrs (BOY Aug 22)
Days Booted This Year: 10
Average Time Between Reboot: 784 hrs
Total Dockings: 5724
Dockings this year: 828
New Batteries At Cycle: 4588
Battery Set At Cycle: 1136
Docking Failures this year: 11 or 1.3 % of Dockings
Safety Shutdowns this year: 1 or .1 % of Dockings
Ave Cycle this year: 9.5 hours
Ave Playtime this year: 5.6
Ave of Last 10 Playtimes 6.2
Last Docking: 2025-08-22 10:08|[juicer.py.dock]---- Docking 5724 completed at 8.1 v after 6.2 h playtime
Last Recharge: 2025-08-22 13:35|[juicer.py.undock]---- Dismount 5724 at 11.3 v after 3.5 h recharge
13:36:43 up 50 days, 17:40, 3 users, load average: 0.46, 0.45, 0.45