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Originally Posted by meatmanek
Two unique things about our robot:
Our kicker wheel - it picks tubes off of the floor and turns them vertical
Our grabber - it opens from the inside of the tube, and holds the tube vertically. The long arms of the grabber act as guiding mechanisms so that when we drive up to the goal, the spider foot is pushed into the center of the grabber, where an IR sensor triggers closing the grabber, which shoots the tube onto the goal.
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This system really was quite elegant, and anybody unlucky enough not to see it needs to come to Indianapolis for a private showing. Winner of the BMR Xerox Creativity Award, and well-deserved.