[Simon Strauss]

After build season someone on my team brought in footage of some Japanese robotics competition that they had found where the object of the game was to race to the middle of a field and place something on a goal. well one team made a stationary robot that used the motors etc. to unfold all the joints of the robot so that it kind of unrolled across the field and around the obstacles (very well done in fact with the turns it required) to place the object on the goal and the thing totally owned everyone else's mobile robots. moral of the story you never know whether or not a team will think of a creative enough stationary robot and put the rest of us to complete shame.