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Originally posted by Rook
What about robots that have arms? When the arm is raised, it can't be pushed under the bar. The arms, however, were designed with other functions in mind such as loading boxes or stacking them. Does such a robot get DQ'ed if it's arm is deployed and happens to prevent it from being pushed under the bar? It's not all just "common sense" the way Update 20 was worded.
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So take a look at it: did they come up and deploy arms in order to block? Could they have lowered their arms to get out of the way or effectively push back? Were the arms utilized in multiple instances in order to block by using them as a support with the bar?
And besides: if such a design was used, with the most common blocking ability of arms in mind, it would just put the two bots at a stalemate. One is stuck between the bar and the other bot, and the other bot is incessantly and needlessly trying to push the other one out of the way. Doesn't sound very useful to me, personally...
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