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Re: Bumper Measurement Ruling
A ROBOT has several corners on its FRAME PERIMETER. Most have 4 corners, but some have 3, others have 6, 8 or 9 (I'm looking at you 148). Or a ROBOT could be partially or completely round, and the curved portion would have an infinite number of corners.

The BUMPERS must protect the FRAME PERIMETER at least 8 inches on each side of each corner. If you have a 3-sided equilateral triangle ROBOT, it could be up to 40 inches on each side. 8 inches at each end of the 40-inch side would need BUMPER protection.

In addition, there must be soft BUMPER parts (noodles) that fill in the area beyond the corner to give protection from a direct corner hit. There are pictures of this in the manual.
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