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Originally Posted by TheMadCADer
Karthik himself has stressed the importance of autonomous this year, particularly floor pickup. He also expects, "a huge supply of discs on the floor." I would say floor pickup is a near certainty.
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I'm not saying autonomous isn't important or denying the advantage floor pickup could bring. And yes, it would be unlike 1114. From what I saw at week 1, consistent autonomous programs gave a huge lead even with no extra discs. I'm just entertaining the idea that maybe, just maybe, they actually went without it.
It could also be possible that the picture doesn't have a floor-loading mechanism because they have something similar to 1986's arm and it just isn't mounted. If the area below the shooter is actually a "gate" that can be used to human load, it could in theory be used to collect discs from the pickup arm. But I didn't design the robot, so I really don't know. In any event, we shall see in a few days.