Yah thats basicly the purpose of the gas spring, take alot of load off the motor, and helps us hold them out where we want them, i think it has like 250lbs of force or something like that, i dont remmeber, i had nothing to do with the arm, hehe.
Titanium, yeah i dont know whos idea that was, but its a great one
this robot is as beefy as anything we've ever built, yet one of our lightest robots yet.
Come on mr professional engineer purdue grad, you can afford to come back and see the first annual boilermaker regional in person!
that would be reason 899 why boilermaker regional is going to be amazing, if you showed up