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Re: Robot Carts

Safety First. If you can control it, I'm sure they won't mind. Some teams even build carts to ride on while driving. When you program the drive, put a cap on the speed, so that it doesn't go faster than a brisk walking speed, even with the joysticks/accelerator pushed to the max.

Try to avoid sharp edges. Ideally, I would install some form of bumpers on it. Since it will be an old robot, I can't imagine that being too difficult a task.

But as far as I know, they allow previous robots as carts. They don't really check the carts as much as the current robots themselves.
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