Hydraulics?

[s_forbes]

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

A look inside the wheel well of a 737 gives you an idea of how awful it is to manage all the tubing for hydraulic lines. It's also pretty heavy.

Fortunately we don't build such complicated systems for the FRC... although if a team showed up with something like that they would become an instant favorite of mine!

I think it's interesting that teams are allowed to compete with some dangerous and failure-prone electromechanical mechanisms year after year, but for some reason the thought of a hydraulically actuated device is thrown right out the window for safety reasons. I understand the oil-on-field issue, but if we're using something that's field-safe like water, is there actually a serious risk? (reference some 2008 catapult robots when making your comparison. )