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Re: Sideways Hanging - Yes or No

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Originally Posted by Swampdude View Post
FYI
Guess that means we're good to go!
Yup! My only question is, in the event of damage (gripper causing damage to the pole, 3 robots hanging at the same point causing damage to the structure, etc), who is responsible?

Let's say the teams hanging all went through reasonable measures in preventing their robots from creating excessive forces and causing damages while hanging. In the event of a tower failure, is it FIRST's responsibility to make the tower stronger, or is it team's responsibilities to change their design such that failure will not occur again (like redesigning to hang from the horizontal bars)?

Interesting thing to think about.
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