[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by BBray_T1296

Seconded
Note how the claw will be on the ground outside the bumper perimeter, and is liable to be ran into by other robots. The moment on the joint from such a collision is massive and could bring the whole tower down

Perhaps that could create a large enough moment to cause a tower failure, but I suspect there would be other failure modes that would occur well before the tower failed.