How are robots lowered?
 

From kickoff, the bar will be lowered down to 6ft to detach robots.

However, looking at the recent pics of robots, and considering various designs, robots on the bar will most likely be at various heights above the platform. Many also use pneumatics. After a match is scored, will FIRST judges/refs let team members onto the field in order to detach the robots in order as they come down and to let air out from the pneumatics so various devices may retract?

Re: How are robots lowered?
 

At the UTC scrimmage yesterday seemed like it wasnt really necessary to lower the bar. Unless the robot is hanging like 5 feet off the ground I don't think the bar is going to be lowered.

Re: How are robots lowered?
 

I believe one of the updates said you are allowed to tether in order to release pneumatics or whatever you need to do to get down.

Re: How are robots lowered?
 

At competition, the officals will let you tether your bots after the match like normal to remove them from the field. You can release all pneumatics and other devices while tethered. The bar will also be lowered if need be. Though it is expected, you must have your bot off the field withing 30secs of the time you are called on to remove it, SO make it easily manually removable.

Re: How are robots lowered?
 

For our hanging device we would tether and lowering our boat hook. However our current plan has us dangling pulling ourselves all the way to the top so we will have to use our tallest member to reach the tether port. Now whats really interesting is that our tallest point on the robot when suspended is 22 ft. ;) :ahh:

Re: How are robots lowered?
 

all we did was go onto the field and pick the robot off the bar (from its hanging state) and carried it off...