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Re: Minibot Stored Energy

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Originally Posted by sjspry View Post
So would it be possible to, before deployment, use some of the minibot's battery to power ... something ... and store energy? It seems like it would to me, as long as that power originated from the minibot's battery.
The GDC's wording could have been better, IMO, I think they meant this:

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<G19> means . . . . Energy for vertical movement may not be stored in the MINIBOT before DEPLOYMENT (except within the battery and excluding incidental kinetic energy stored in the motors or wheels, but NOT, for example, in a flywheel)..
They just used a few unnecessary words ("that which is contained") which create potential confusion because they are unnecessary. A flywheel is just an example of what is not within the exception for "incidental kinetic energy." There is no other exception.