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Re: Unique robot design?

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Originally Posted by mrnoble View Post
Hoping I have figured out how to share this. This is one of our special features. We plan on using this to clear out the landfill in autonomous or the early game. It's based on something many of you are familiar with this time of year: a hydrolic (in this case pneumatic) snowplow.
Your pneumatic set up reminds me of our intake. They look like mandibles and retract and expand using pneumatics that translate motion via a "Y" shaped linkage. We might be able to clear mid field with our system in a similar way as well, with some experimentation.
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