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Unread 27-02-2003, 23:39
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About moving boxes quickly, our robot is a launching bot (and yes, it does launch) but we don"t launch very far. Our current plan is to drag boxes behind us and go halfway under the bar, then launch the boxes over the bar into our scoring sone. We can also stack boxes (only 2 high, but multipliers are useful). Also, as I saw in a couple of scrimmages, the king of the hill bots can be repetatively rammed until a bit of their bot touches the mesh, so they"re worthless, but they still prevent people from moving boxes over the ramp. I think the most useful robots will be the ones that can get boxes over the bar somehow and can stack a bit and protect their stacks.