[KenWittlief]

my point was we tend to think of our robots in human like terms.

If you have a basketball game, like last year, the normal path is to think of a person shooting basketballs, one at a time.

Who was the team from Canada with a bot last year, the one that looked like a paint roller machine? I believe it had 3 parallel paths, and could shoot three balls simultaniously.

Its hard to make that leap, unless you have someone on your team with 6 arms.

One way to get around this is to do things backwards and upside down. Set up the field in the way you want it to look at the end of the match. Then figure out, how do we get to this, from the way the field looks at the start, and go backwards.

Anything that pushes you out of normal linear thinking can take you to a unique solution.