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Originally Posted by Duke461
Recklessness can destroy any robot, no matter how well it was put together. Give me the 2010 Breakaway Field (or another year with more than just towers on the field), the toughest robot from that year, and it's control board, and i could break the robot within a minute.
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I don't mean that literally any action a driver can do should be unable to break the robot, though that's obviously ideal. But a robot isn't something that should require constant thought to its safety to drive.
It's funny that you mention Breakaway, because that seems like the best example. Barring deploying the hanger and intentionally tipping, how exactly could you break a good robot that year? If your robot could be damaged by anything other than an unusual circumstance like getting chain caught in your wheels, it simply was not robust.
Seriously, do you guys really tell drivers to "go easy on the robot"? That's just prolonging a failure that WILL happen.