Where does your team build your robot? We try to find any open space (eg. the janitors aren't cleaning it or it isn't being used) in the school to drive our robot in to practice. Sometimes we're in the cafeteria, others in the main hallway, and still yet other times in the music room, stage, auditorium, gymnasium, various classrooms or the library. Although my team hasn't asked our local mall for practice space to drive a robot, we have brought our robot to the mall on two different occasions while promoting FIRST.
Simply said, running a large FRC robot in the mall is not a good idea. After hitting the Best Buy's sign last year, we decided not to run the FRC Robot in the mall this year. Only the Vex robot ran around.
More Pictures:
http://www.team228.org/index/promotefirst/05/mall.htm
