Background:
Our robot has two giant plastic "ears" made out of cut and rounded panels of the plastic that tops the ramp. These are rotated from a raised position to a lowered (and "outward") position by the Nippon window motors.
Now guess what? Not one, not two, not
three, but
four of our team members have been smacked by these wings accidentally at various times because they happened to be standing in the wrong place while we tested the controls or autonomous mode.
I myself took the worst blow, I was kneeling next to the robot when the auton mode caused a wing to swing down full-force into the very tip of my shoulder. It hurt like hell for about a minute and scraped me, but never even bruised. Luckily I don't injure very easily.
(I also have the honor of being the only person who's been hit twice by the things, just a few minutes before this happened one scraped one of my knuckles when it came down on my hand.)
I know that's peanuts to some of the nasty stuff other people have taken; the funny part is how often it happens.
