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Re: BattleBots Return - And They're Powered by VEXpro!

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
Depending on superstructure armor and location of certain critical items, of course, if some copter had a payload on a quick-release (probably want it on a winch as well) and a targeting camera aka "bomb sight", I suspect that a fair number of robots could be damaged or disabled in their internals--see "frisbee on power switch" in FRC 2013. Naturally, the power switch would be the primary target, or anything that happened to be moving.


That being said, I rather suspect that that would be rather difficult given armor considerations and best-guess payload-carrying capacity.
And the fact that these guys don't have standardized switches. Some have buttons, some have removable links, some may have more than one of each. You'd need to do something special to pull that stunt off.
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