pic: 111 Going for a Hurdle, ending up in a precarious position

[Dan 1038]

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[Jimmy Cao]

I've seen a few teams end up like that. It must be scary for the drivers...

I think armbots will get better over time and I dont expect to see such things much at championships. =D

[octothorpe]

Kudos to Wildstang for making the recovery! They're lucky the trackball is fairly light relative to a 135lb. robot.

When the same thing happened to us last year at Silicon Valley with the bottom spider leg, we had worse luck – an alliance member tried to help us back up and inadvertently pushed us all the way over! :rolleyes: At least the only damage done was dislodging the camera and sending it skittering across the carpet.

Although actually, I wouldn't have minded nearly as much if we'd gotten the tipping on video, but unfortunately the memory card came out of the darn thing...

[BenB]

How many times did I hear precarious this weekend, lol. The MC loved that word

[Josh Fox]

I think armbots will get better over time and I dont expect to see such things much at championships. =D

I agree with this statement this is one of those things that with practice, the timeing becomes better an better but amazing job wildstang great bot

[Akash Rastogi]

this happened a couple times at our regional and also once or twice to us. but that's when good alliance partners jumped in and gave us a tap in the front to get us back on the ground. :cool:

[Richard Wallace]

We saw similar predicaments several times at St. Louis. The Martians got themselves caught like that, and I'm sure there were others that I don't recall right now. Sometimes the got free again, but sometimes they didn't. Once the wheels leave the carpet, it can be difficult to regain control.

[Wayne C.]

been there-done that

the Plainfield Killer Cardinals were able to knock us free. That was the one round where we just barely eked out a tie.


So how is your overpass?

Wc :D

[ruhiyyeh]

Our robot also had trouble with getting stuck on the overpass. We tipped a couple times, but there was one time an alliance partner bumped us enough to free us.

[Rebecca Leung]

I've seen a few teams end up like that. It must be scary for the drivers...
Definitely!

Well this is what happens when you drive a bit too fast into the hurdle and the overpass is a bit too low (we lowered the maximum height of our nest later on).