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Originally posted by mrobrien
I imagine that your wings have to widen in order to get your lifter arms back down to the bottom box. I don't see how you do this however. are there motors or pneumatics attatched to do this or is it some neat static thing? How do you handle boxes on their sides?

Nice looking robot.
It's likely that the plate that lifts the bins is hinged to move in only one direction.

The force of the bin downward on that plate can't move it, but as the plate moves down, it flips up out of the way.
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