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Re: team 909's robot

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Originally Posted by Stephen P
Man, that is some crazy engineering. My question, though, is whether it will be practical during normal match conditions. It seems that extending that thing would take alot of time and skillful maneuvering to stack a tetra, and would be very hard while facind defence.
It takes just as long for our driver to get from the loading station to the center goal as it does for the arm to get set into position. In other words, it really doesn't take all that long. We've never come close to tipping and we've tried. Certainly having another robot in the arena changes things slightly, but on our own we can't make it tip, which does say something for itself.