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Re: How much Power?

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Originally Posted by Oblarg View Post
I, personally, would be rather uncomfortable with the notion of a 150lb robot climbing that fast. That's not something I'd necessarily want our students to be around, either.

Then again, my team is not exactly shooting for Einstein, so perhaps one's sensibilities change at the higher levels of competition.
That's why our can grabbers were going ~30% the speed of sound when they hit the cans. I can use a lot of words to describe that mechanism but safe was so far down that list it may as well have been a mid-Atlantic boat anchor.

I expect to see some fast robots and some fast climbs, but I doubt many fast climbs will be sub 1.5 second.
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