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Originally Posted by MikePres
Me and couple of my teammates had this idea that we call "wings". basically we thought of folded arms that unfold outside the robot and create 2 forklift-like platforms on both sides of the robot.

Our mentors said it's impossible and we're gonna break our wings on our first try.
what do you think?
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Nothing is impossible given enough time, weight, and money.
You'll have 150 lbs of robot 2+ feet out from your torsional point. So your ramps will need to support 300+ lb-feet of torsion. Not impossible, but not something to be undertaken lightly.
We were looking at holding to the vertical bar and flipping our robot upside down. At a lever arm of around 4 feet when the bot was horizontal, and considering the grab points on the bar would have been around 6 inches apart, you're lookin at over 1/2 ton of torsion / shear on the tower (and your gripper). Not something we felt comfortable engineering to.