Thread: Thin rope!
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Re: Thin rope!

Frankly, from a safety standpoint, I'm surprised a 100% safe method for securing the rope at the top isn't being required. If a team uses a thin rope with a knot they presume is thick enough but isn't under certain scenarios (e.g. hanging robot actually bumped by another robot), then the hanging robot could fall to the ground with the current guidelines. A worse scenario would be the robot falling on a person because the top knot slipped through the 1" opening after the match when students are trying to extract their robot. There are many types of rope/cord out there with different characteristics. It would have been far safer IMO to include in the KoP a 100% reliable plastic anchor compatible with any (within reason) type of rope OR to require a loop at the top and usage of the fingers mentioned in the previous post.
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