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Unread 19-01-2006, 17:18
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Re: Ramp or no ramp

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Originally Posted by 663.keith
I believe that it will be important to get up the ramp, but also, teams can help each other up. I remember in the animation the blue shovel bot pushed the other two up the ramp to get all three 'bots on. I think if a team had a good bot to go up the ramp he could easily push an omniwheel bot up
In my opinion, bad idea. We broke several of the little rollers off our omni wheels last year, and that was just going over pipe. I'd think that the omni wheels would break when getting pushed up that ramp. Also, if a robot is not built to make it up such inclines, you could damage their frame. If you want to make friends, ask before pushing robots up the ramp. You don't want to damage a robot. There are six weeks of sweat, tears, and hopefully purely metaphorical blood into that robot.
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