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Re: What do you think of a wedge
We've had a movable wedge on our robot for the past three years. Our net flipping of robots is zero.

A wedge (inclined plane) is the simplest of the simple machines. It would be poor engineering to eliminate this concept just because you think it might be seen as "ungracious."

What's next? No wheels? (That's the other super-duper-simple machine.)

I can hear the discussion now. "That robot is made to roll around. Some rolling robots ram into other robots. That's ungracious. Therefore, all things with wheels are ungracious. Therefore, wheels are bad and shouldn't be used."