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I wanna know how much those huge metal beams weigh.
the two beams with the centers in them weigh in at 35Lbs.


Just think if you get these long arms spinning like a top and someone tries to come close what do you think is going to happen.


the low center of gravity and the way the tracks are we have pretty good traction on the top of the ramp.


the point is not to be at the top until the end of the match. Full speed with arms out will push a couple of robots off the edge.

the arms and a strong robot will be good to knock over anybody stack even if they try to stop us. remember if your robot is touching any part of your stack that stack does not count. if a robot pushes into your own stack then you lose those points.


This is just some of the thing a strong robot can do. The field is open due because our robot can go under the bar so it would be hard to block


for those fast robot that knock the center stack down quickly our arms are wide enought to push them back up and over the ramp.