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Originally Posted by n0cturnalxb
If you can get your robot to hold the tetras relatively stable-y AND stack while collecting (go in and out of the loading zone, collecting more than one tetra and forming a stack before you put it onto the goals) ... you've got a pretty good advantage there.
Then again, they're pretty heavy to keep holding.
And I have no idea how such an arm mechanism would work.
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I've got an idea, but as it is it's too complicated to build. Imagine a telescoping arm consisting of several conveyor belts, studded with pins from which tetras can hang. As a conveyor belt reaches the end of one length of the arm, the tetra is handed off to the next length. You load tetras from some sort of hopper inside your robot and carry them up the arm to place them.
Think of a string of detachable aerial ski lifts.