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Re: Carrying Tetras

We carry them between ~2 and 6 feet from our shoulder joint which is located near one of the upper corners of the robot.

Our first design was a 2 jointed arm much like many people are talking about, but before finalizing it, I ran some calculations I should have done much earlier to see how tippable we would be. The results were unacceptable to me, so we decided to drop the second joint in exchange for a slider carrying our tetra manipulators on our arm.
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