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Re: BUMPERS ARE INCLUDED IN ROBOT VOLUME THIS YEAR!

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Originally Posted by mrnoble View Post
I am bummed about the number of robots that will come to competition this year unable to compete at all. Some years, overweight robots need to get Swiss cheesed, or lose a mechanism. Some years, bumpers need to be reconstructed. How does a team recover when they need to lose ~6" on both X and Y? And then rebuild the bumpers?
We did this by a few inches width wise last year at our first competition. Not fun. Not fun at all. Something about the bumpers on our front not being at least six inches. This required tearing off about half of the stuff on our robot.
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