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Originally Posted by Edoc'sil
Just make a pair of bars to either side that can slide underneath a robots chassis. Most bots have at least an inch of clearance off the floor if not a bit more. Drop the bars have the other bots drive on top of them and then you can haul all three up, assuming the weight is reasonably distributed.
A crude pic
I think that gets my point across? Idk if it is reasonable within the finale config but, hey.
Edit * that pic was a pain, should have done it in paint.
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It isn't that simple. How are you going to lift yourself and guarantee your bot can't tip forward or back? Now you need a rigid lift mechanism cantilevered out 3 feet from the tower. That is no easy task. Now you need to make sure you can cross a bump or go under the tunnel. Again, no easy task.
I would suggest that
anyone who thinks this might be an easy or simple design challenge pay close attention to the number of teams that actually manage to pull it off and do it well.
Lifting 2 robots in '07 was a far more simple task, and yet you still had a very small percentage of robots that were capable of doing it reliably.