[MrJohnston]

Last night, we started mounting our acquiring and lifting mechanism on the base... By Saturday, the programming team should get their hands on it and get the manipulators working manually - and start programming autonomous sequences. We are starting to cut metal for various supports and structures for totes/RC's as we stack them and could have that mounted by Saturday as well.... Our second robot has a working base, but not much else. We should return to working on it Saturday. Construction should go relatively quickly as it is just a duplicate of the first. I feel pretty good about progress, but it would be nice if we could get it to the programming team sooner.