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Re: Robot to robot contact?

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Originally Posted by GrifBot View Post
What some teams have done is have little shields on the ends of the grabbers, so once you're in, nobody else can get in. Pulling them out would probably be really dangerous, not to mention hard to do.
Yeah, we did saw that at St Louis. But for the shield system to work, our arm have to reach the can first. Our design is suppose to work in both case: if we get to the can first, or the opponent bot gets to the can first.