This is going way back all the way to the 2002 game, Zone Zeal.
I came across of a forgotten picture of our team's robot in 2002.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...1ed4bc0a_l.jpg
What caught my attention was what I found in the front and back of the robot. I realized that the robot started vertical and then fell forwards to have a longer drive base. (You can see the curved back plate on the left side of the picture and the rubber pneumatic brake which slowed the impact with the floor on the right side of the picture.)
I know 71 had a very similar design,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAmAnkYDUQM but were their a lot of robots like this, or were 71 and 449 the only ones?
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