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Re: pic: Robot Bumpers

Yeah, this bumper stuff is getting to be very frustrating.

From the way the rule was written I understood it as "We don't want any part of the robot exposed because of the high speed ramming that will occur, so bumpers must be on every corner to ensure there is little damage caused to the field and other robots". This is understandable.

I do not see how ANY part of the robot shown above could make contact with another robot (that is also following the bumper rules) or the field in a way that "the bumpers must make contact first" would not apply. Yes, corner A and B are not covered on both sides of the corner, but at the same time, it is impossible to reach the uncovered side of those corners.

It seems almost like things went a little overboard when making these rules, We might as well just build our robot out of pool noodle wrapped bars, or wrap the whole robot in bubblewrap, with the way this keeps going.
2cents.

PS. to follow what seems to be what the GDC wants, I would also suggest putting bumpers on the inside corners of D and E, as both sides of those corners will also need to be protected.

EDIT: I hope that inspector manual comes out soon, so we can build our robot lol

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