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Unread 20-06-2003, 21:15
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Originally posted by DougHogg
One day during testing, the arm came up but didn't rotate. The engineer who designed the arm, came forward to see what the problem was. At that point, the arm suddenly swung and hit him right between the eyes on the bridge of his nose. He was hurting for several days.
We were standing around the practice field on evening in Houston, and a "flailer" team (not 980, 234, 71, or 148... I don't remember who it was) was setting up their bot for practice. I guess they had their autonomous mode set backwards because instead of knocking down the wall... the arm swung out into the crowd of bystanders. After things calmed down, 3 Members of 229 were down on the ground, a 4th was standing there white as a ghost, muttering something about feeling something brush against his nose....
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