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Originally Posted by Luke Pike
I don't pretend to know much about this, but wouldn't all the holes in the ball make suction difficult?
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I know the location of a few wind tunnels that could probably do a fair job at providing enough suction to suck up a ball... but you aren't going to be able to get those under the weight limit, or even run them on a simple 12V battery.
So for all intents and purposes, suction on the entire ball can easily be considered impossible within the scope of the competition. However, a robot could *theoretically* suction a small part of a ball - one rib - and provide enough force to grip the ball. That is, if you have a mechanism that is sophisticated enough to be able to target and approach a single rib on a ball.