Team Update #18

[boomergeek]

Originally Posted by jspatz1

If the ramp shape causes a net elevation drop in the minibot before it reaches the pole, then additional energy other than "electrical energy from the motors" (in this case the minibot's own potential energy due to gravity) has indeed been imparted on the minibot.

...move up the POST solely through electric energy provided after the start of DEPLOYMENT by the permitted, unaltered battery and converted to mechanical energy by the permitted unaltered motors...

As long as gravitational potential lost plus gravitational potential gained is zero or negative below the deployment line- it provides NO ENERGY "to move up the POST". All energy is coming from the batteries/motors- but the allowed advantage for the rampbot is that its battery/motors energy expended as soon as it crosses into the deployment cylinder can be transferred through any shape ramp into vertical motion up the pole.