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Unread 09-09-2012, 00:32
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Re: [FTC]: Opinion on lifting robots

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Originally Posted by LeelandS View Post
That's plausible. If that's the plan, instead of one sheet that flips down to make a ramp, you could have two sheets that flip down to make one continuous ramp. As long as they can be locked in place to prevent them collapsing, that's definitely possible.

That would be quite a sight. A "Super ramp" that flips down so an alliance partner can climb on top. That would be one monster of a climb.
Yup, pretty much.

Another design that came across my mind was kind of like a forklift type design where you have a forklift that can get from the floor to the very top of the robot. Attached to the carriage of the forklift is simply an 18x18 sheet of strong metal. It's in vertical position when game starts, but then at end game, this 18x18 metal is expanded; its basically now flat with the floor.

A robot can then get on the metal sheet, and the forklift of the lifting bot can raise the robot & the metal sheet to the top of the bot, and then viola.
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