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Re: G28, Q&A 83, and Noodling a Can Without Touching it

I'll hold my opinions until Q&A clears this up, which I'd anticipate within a week at most.

Tote loading concerns me a little bit-- but as others have mentioned, I doubt this is the intent of the GDC and think they'll clear this up soon enough.

Noodle loading a bin really doesn't concern me. When we were practicing this in Ri3D, our human player was able to load a bin into an untouched tote in under 5 seconds with little to no practice. Get good at placing those bins and feeding the noodle, and I'd anticipate this can be lowered even more even without a robot holding it. Of course, I'd hope for robots holding bins being fed pool noodles to be legal-- I think this would get teams to second or sub-second times for feeding noodles with a good human player and practiced robot, but ultimately it just changes up the variables a little bit in terms of time optimization.
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