Robots Jumping Walls

[Bochek]

So this happened today at GTR West

http://twitpic.com/93cbyk

[THE DYNAMO]

overpowered much???
lol the safet barrier is not safe

[PayneTrain]

How I hope this went down:

The robot gains sentience and thinks: "Ok. I'm on the bridge now... back up, hard forward to the right... here I go! Yes! I'm free Here I c--"
*robot disconnected*
FTA walks over to it, puts one leg on top of robot like this, and says "Nice try, but for now, humans rule."

And then since this is GTR-W there's also maple syrup somewhere and the drive team says "Sooory."

[wilful]

A similar thing happened to team 8 at the Sacramento regional

[Steven Sigley]

A similar thing happened to team 8 at the Sacramento regional

You beat me to it. And at roughly the same time a three bot balance was going on at the other side of the field. It was hard to decide which to watch.

[Mr V]

I'm surprised this hasn't happened more with the bridges right up against the wall and many teams having some sort of wedge on their bot to push the bridge down/get them over the barrier.

[basicxman]

Match on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK4xFh5qvcs&feature=player_detailpage#t=48s) of how it happened.

[Chinmay]

I can see how it happened this year, but last year, I was very impressed by team 115, who, at an offseason event in california managed to climb up onto the railing before being disabled

https://picasaweb.google.com/117769834305511597729/CalGames#5533336189645407826

[ratdude747]

1756 ARGOS did something similar in the elims at Boilermaker... they managed to straddle the rail, only with the robot's down wheels being on the field side.

There is a picture of it somewhere...