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Originally Posted by XenObliv
Yet hockey isn't hockey without ice or something similar.
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Originally Posted by Jacob Bendicksen
It's also possible that they keep the carpet, but do something to make robots a little more 'slippery' on the field...mandatory Omni wheels or something like that.
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I feel like the
hand model from Zoolander here. I just explained this, a moment ago. There's nothing all that 'slippery' about ice skating. If wheels weren't a close approximation of skates in the first place, roller skates wouldn't be a thing.
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Originally Posted by Paul Richardson
I don't think that a slippery driving surface is necessary. If you look at hockey players they aren't slipping and sliding around, they have pretty good control. In fact, the way they skate is pretty similar to how a typical FRC robot moves on carpet (forward and backward, sweeping turns, and pivots).
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