Very slick!
I was able to watch the webcast of the last qualification round match for Team 234 in the VCU regional. It looked like their arm made contact with the wall of bins within about 2 seconds from the start of autonomous mode. It took maybe another 5 - 6 seconds to finish pushing the wall down.
These times are comparable to those of our telecoping arm. With our 13 foot reach, we can hit the bins on the far side of the ramp. We've posted a picture of our robot using the arm in its stowed position:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=18560
In the next day or two, we plan to post a movie showing an early test of the arm in autonomous mode at our team website:
http://www.team980.com/
I see that Team 234 will be at the AZ Regional - maybe there'll be an "arm wrestling" match between our robots!!
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