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Originally posted by monsieurcoffee
It looks nice but suction cups won't even help. Though suction cups may prevent lifting up, they still slide around... and we all know torque = force over distance and there's a huge distance between the span of your 'wings' and your drive train... Robots can probably spin you around like a top And the way we're doing things, we can hit you right on that outer most wing part in autonomous
Knowing the Technokats, I highly DOUBT you could spin them at all, let alone like a top. Perhaps you should look at their previous drivetrain teasers. Techno-tranny 2003 with those pretty rubber tracks can probably own 99% of robots out there... Do you really think your part of the 1%?

You can be sure a team as high quality as 45 will make sure their suction cups won't "slide around". Whatever they have at the end of those wings, likely isn't easy to move, laterally or otherwise.

Personally, I can't wait to get a close look at that bot in Houston...
Good luck to 45 this year!
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