Quote:
Originally Posted by EricH
I understand that you are mostly correct. Back in the day, the teams with 36" by 36" robots had a hard time fitting through standard doors, as I understand it. So they changed it. They changed it again, before bumpers didn't count against weight or size.
|
I agree that it was done to make it easy for robots to get through doorways. We blew up the trackball inside our robotics room this year, then realized that the ball was 40" in diameter, but the doorway was only 36" wide. Not a big problem, since the trackball deforms with enough force, but if it had been the robot instead of the trackball, I would've cried.