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Originally Posted by nighterfighter
The point of the belay system is to keep everything safe, in the event a student can't hold the 150 pounds of robot above their heads.
Why the belay system can't be used to help mitigate the risk of dropping a robot on a student? Beyond me.
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It is used to keep robots from falling on students. A staff member lets the rope out as you lower the robot by hand. If you somehow drop the robot, the staff member stops letting the rope out, and your robot is stopped before it can fall more than a few inches and significantly hurt people, the field, other robots or itself. One of FIRST's rules is that event staff touches teams' robots as little as possible, so they can't be held responsible as little if something gets broken.