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Re: Round Robot(s)

Our team had a round robot two years ago for Logomotion. It was convex for approximately 270 degrees, and had a slightly concave section for the remaining 90 degrees. It was completely wrapped in conformal bumpers. This year we have round corners. This totally befuddled the inspector at the LA scrimmage. I would attach photos, but I'm on my iPad now, and can't easily do that.

We were somewhat thwarted by the mid-build clarification that imposed a new over-restrictive bumper rule for round robots or robots with round corners. Two years ago, we were thwarted by an inter-competition rule change that did the same for our previous round robot's concave bumper section. Now, we're very focused on overcoming the consequence of the new restriction, with something (anything) before our first competition.

Edit: just saw the picture from 3574. That looks really neat! What is your base material? It looks like a solid carbon laminate.

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