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Originally Posted by Zaque
What thought process led you to choose three separate fork systems instead of one?
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This robot was originally designed to lift 2 totes side by side from the handles. It had 4 bars with 2 handle hooks each. The plan was to make two 4 stacks at a time from the landfill. It was actually bagged like that. We made two robots. In after bag-day driver practice, we decided it was too difficult to hook two totes at the same time from the handles consistently.
So our thought process was: How can we fix this thing? We prototyped the forks and immediately saw the potential. We kept on iterating and eventually ended up with a pretty sound robot.
Interesting note: both of these robots will be competing side-by-side at
http://www.gatewayroboticschallenge.com