[Dick Linn]

Originally Posted by roborat

I saw several bots hang in 04 using hooks but the all had some type of arm extend up with hook on end to catch the bar and the hook and cable were velcroed so they would release from the arm and winch up the bots. Only purpose of the arm was to place the hook.

Team 975 used a telescoping tube made from nested PCV pipes. There were flat-wound clock springs to extend the arm segments and a small steel cable/winch to control extension and lift, and a hook on the end that was loosely attached. It worked fairly well. In one match at the VCU regional, all four robots were hanging from the bar. That year's robot was unofficially named "hooker".

It's the lowest one in the foreground. (Check out the officials in the background - everyone went wild.)

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