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Originally Posted by BJC
That's because that chassis is specifically designed to reduce weight and increase packaging space by intentionally being flimzy. It makes use of all the manditory things in a drivetrain like the gearboxes and axles for structural support but uses its bumpers (which don't count towards the robot weight) as the "meat" of the frame providing almost all of the stiffness.
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For ten years now, I would often look at 33's robots and wonder "How the heck do they make weight?!"
Now that I know how that pans out, I'll have to ask "How the heck do their bumpers make weight?!"
(Mind you, I find their approach fantastic and truly next-level work within the rules.
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