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Re: pic: 2011 Drive Prototype

^^ Exactly. I'm sure many chain-drive 6wd designs look a lot like Team 95's robot Archimedes from 1998 which had a dropped-center 6WD. I'm sure many omni-wheel drives look similar to 95's 1999 robot Mac. It's likely that these designs looked an awful lot like ones that came before them.

It's very rare that designs change radically and immediately. Look at the evolution of cars, or bicycles, or...
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