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Unread 12-04-2010, 19:42
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Re: Legged Robots
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Originally Posted by BHS_STopping View Post
If we're going to be loose with our definition of "legged," I would consider Beatty's 2002 machine to be a "crawler" of sorts. Check out some of their videos on TBA, it's really an elegant mechanism. However, they weren't champions in 2002 because of the qualities you indicated. In fact, their machine was simply very slow and powerful, but guaranteed a victory if they could snag all 3 goals at the start of a match.
Its the giant one that has the 2 big arms? Dang, thats pretty epic, but so slow
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