[DougHogg]

Originally posted by Solace
One thing I would like to hear about are the robots how have arms that reach over the wall to knock down the bins without actually moving. How fast do those work? There haven't been any of those at the regionals that I've witnessed.

We move a bin in the stack with our arm at 1.97 seconds (59 frames in our video at 30 frames per second).

Here's a picture from our first match at the Arizona Regional with the big screen in the background showing the official clock at 1:58 and our arm bumping the stack.

(We were 4th seed in Arizona. We would have been higher; We didn't make any "arrangements".)

Our robot, "Yoda", making first contact at the Arizona Regional

There are some videos on our team web site:

Team 980

For anyone coming to Los Angeles for the S. Calif. Regional next week, see you here.

Otherwise, look for us in Houston.