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Re: <R3> A. Robot Height

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Originally Posted by cglrcng View Post
Now, How do you fit a 78" tall "Bagged Robot", into a 4' X ' 4' X approx 65" tall max. inside height crate without unbagging & taking it apart? Not even corner to corner on a diagonal fit if it is a ft wide or more. They must know what they are doing though.
Just to go back a bit, in 2007 the robots could be 6' tall in the starting box (under the condition that they be 100 lbs or less). At Kickoff, there was a "Jeopardy!" style Q&A, to which one of the question/answer pairs was "How do you fit a 6' tall robot into a 5' tall crate?" "Plan ahead."
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