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Originally Posted by Tomasz Bania
We instituted a mental checklist...
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The whole point of a checklist is that it is
not stored in someone's head. Relying on the pit and drive crews to remember everything is risky, especially if what they need to remember is more than about five or six things.
One copy of our robot's "preflight" list is affixed to the inside of the robot. It steps through a full functional test of all motors, pressure regulators, pneumatic actuators, and sensors.