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Re: Turning on the bridge

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Originally Posted by pfreivald View Post
In my experience thus far, pushing a dead-weight robot that is turned sideways on its wheels up a polycarbonate slope is harder than it seems. So I guess I'd say "essential unless you have a monstrous drivetrain and very good traction on the polycarb".
That's where we come in. When people ask us if we have a special bridge balancing mechanism, we call it "monstorous treads with excellent traction".


At FLR, we directed our (wide) alliance partners to drive against us as we tripled, and we still managed to push them up the bridge.