[Jim]

>I'd like to offer a friendly challenge to everyone. Let's come up with 10 obstacle ideas that when overcome, would be applicable to solving societal problems.

Natchez, That is pure genius!

I will list your first 2 and add. Perhaps others will cut and paste to do the same; thereby keeping the list together for easier review.

1-fast stair climbing
2-door knob manipulation/opening (high resistance door as at a commercial establishment-no easy swinging house style doors ;-)
3-Pick semi-fragile items (empty cereal boxes?) off of a high shelf and place them on a lower one.
4-Use standard grocery store shopping carts as the goals.


I am writing this separately to keep the list intact: Here's a crazy idea, have a person on the robot that could do nothing but relay information, no control ability. Now you have to contend with moving all that extra weight. I can see it now, FIRST teams courting the smallest lightest person in the school to join their team.

I can't wait to see this thread grow!