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Originally Posted by Thermal
I'm sorry, but the prevelance of this idea is absurd to me. I see absolutely no reason as to why a person cannot be near a robot that is on. A healthy respect for injuries that a robot can cause DOES NOT require one to treat it like its a bomb about to go off. Honestly a robot that turned on is only as dangerous as the person controlling it. As is, everyone on the team should have a sense of trust in their driver, otherwise that person should not be controlling a robot.
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Random hands touching the robot while it's on can really only lead to negative attention drawn to the team when a random someone gets hurt. This is particularly detrimental to the recruitment effort.
As for our robots, I'd kick anyone out of the pits/classroom who's using it as a footrest (unless it's a photo-op, prank, etc
). Other than that we really don't have a problem with it in the post-season so long as it still runs.