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Re: Self-righting

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Originally Posted by Beth Sweet
As one of the technical mentors showed me (as I was screaming at him), it would take a pretty good fall for us not to be able to get back up. I think that they have so much weight in the front that it just pops back up again.
front weight would only help if your robot tipped back but supposed it gets tipped over forward while being rammed.

Anyway I am currently trying to figure out how to reduce the chance of tipping over because a sideways robot is essentially useless...
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