i can smell the burning gearboxs already!

I can see the robot arms grabbing the opponent... and flipping your own robot over instead of picking up theirs :)

Bah
 

it is quite possible to lift their robot with some 2.5' bore pistons and 60 psi that first is providing us with and just design the robot with some good counter balance and it will be pretty easy to pick up another robot, even if it weighs the same or more than your robot. . . I am hoping to build a very violent and mean robot, but we will see how well our team's "democracy" works! hahaha!

I don't think we plan on doing it this year, but just to note, our team (537) did manage to lift and hold robots last year. It's not as hard as you might think, though it was a bit involved.

http://www.team537.com/2002_competition/ for pictures of both Before (First day of Nationals Competition) and After (Second day of Nationals Competition).

we had a little discussion about this last year

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&threadid=3512

1800 reads and alot of not happy people. i only know 2-3 teams that did this last year, and proly even fewer for this year. There isn't really an advantage to doing this.