All these mouse bots gives me an evil idea- CAT BOTS!

[Patrick Wang]

I was watching the KSC regional and saw the extensive usage of mouse bots.

Then it occured to me that you could whip yourselves up a cat bot on thursday of regionals.

essentially a cat bot would run around, catch the other mouse bots and bring them back to your home zone. :D

Perhaps then, people would realize the dominating effect of cat bots :rolleyes: and proceed to make themselves dogbots for the next competition.

This will then eventually spiral into such a loop that we will have
30 lb robots with 100 lb dogbots chasing after each other.

Dreaming? maybe... But it was a funny thought at the time.

[ReijiH]

but then again, you go back to the original concept of, why not make a rat-bot salvaging device on your real robot? Nobody really came up with this, but what'd be the ruling is a team came up with a device that kidnap ( or rather, rat nap? forgive the stupid pun) and bring them to their own scoring position for additional points? Would that still count as 10 pts?

[Joe Ross]

It would be legal to capture the rat, with the same rules as capturing a normal robot. However, actually geting it be usefull in a match is another question. Most teams (at least at KSC) deployed their "rats" in the last seconds, often a few seconds to late to make it all the way. I think it would be impossible to make a devide to capture it and get it all the way back to your zone. It would even be extremely difficult.

However, you would be looking at a creativity or other design award :p