[jvriezen]

I don't recall the team #, but at Northern Lights, there was a very clever bot design that had a tethered 'mini-tote bot'. They took a tote, chopped out the middle 'layer' so that they had just the tote bottom and top, about 5" tall. It had two powered wheels, and a pneumatic cylinder. The main bot mined the landfill, and the mini bot's top was a receiving platform for two feeder totes. It would then drive to the scoring platform, and drive a piston down through a hole in the mini bot bottom at one end (think 2012 stinger) , and the two totes would slide off the tote bot onto the platform -- they had cut away and smoothed the top lip on one side so that the scoring totes would slide off.

They had one driver for the big bot, and the other driver for the tethered tote bot.