[Jeff Waegelin]

I'm going to go out on a limb, and guess that they'll do something that I just thought of today. It seems like a Beatty-esque idea. The basic concept is, the robot has a big basket of some sort, one strong arm, and one really long thin arm. The robot drives under the ball chute in autonomous, opens up the basket, and then swings out a reall long arm to hit the nearest ball tee and release and catch all 18 balls in autonomous mode. The strong arm is a possible addition to this design, and will grab the doubler and hang. One possible variation: the ball tee whacking arm has a hook on the end for hanging on the bar, in lieu of a separate bar-grabbing arm. Anyways, I don't know how likely this idea is, but 71 has used a big swinging arm before, and Mr. Noble told me at Great Lakes that they were doing "something that hasn't been seen before" and, well, this hasn't been seen before. So, it's my best guess.