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Re: How can we drive on this new floor?

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Originally Posted by Dracco1993 View Post
Some of my team members and I calculated that using 2 sim's and suction cup properly you caould add an extra 600 pounds to your robot with ever touching the ground... Any Ideas?
Shade of 2003.
Teams used suction cups to plant themselves at the top of the ramp. That worked for the first few matches and then after getting ran over by robots for a while the field surface got worn down a bit and the suction cups stopped working.
I suspect the same would happen this year as well.
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