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Re: surefire ways to break you robot

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Originally Posted by RyanN View Post
I left the robot for one minute with our programming mentor while I went and looked at something else, and he managed to hit the overpass at full speed with our forklift. Luckily, it didn't break it. The robot instead drove until it tipped partly on its back side and the wheels were no longer in contact with the floor. We have a good CoG.
330 had an incident where a programming mentor was the only one in the shop and broke the robot. It was minor--an output gear on a redundant motor--but still...
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