The Robonauts 118 - 2012 Video

[BrendanB]

Guys, you can go back and forth all day with definitions, rules, and the Q&A but it won't matter until you get to an event and the LRI/Head Ref get involved. Obviously the Robonauts have put a lot of thought and work to get there robot into all the rules required to play and I see it as legal and many members see it as legal but again, the GDC hasn't explicitly said if it was legal/illegal and they haven't competed.

Only time will tell but until then stop beating the dead horse of 179/118 and just say it is awesome already!

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Only time will tell but until then stop beating the dead horse of 179/118 and just say it is awesome already!

Whoa whoa whoa now. I dont see a reason we cant have a mature discussion about this. As someone who spent a significant amount of time researching rules and designing an almost identical system and coming to a different conclusion I think my comments are worthwhile. If I was 118, I would certainly like to hear how other veteran teams view the issue.

I also believe 179 is completely different than 118.
-Brando

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

Whoa whoa whoa now. I dont see a reason we cant have a mature discussion about this. As someone who spent a significant amount of time researching rules and designing an almost identical system and coming to a different conclusion I think my comments are worthwhile. If I was 118, I would certainly like to hear how other veteran teams view the issue.

-Brando

I'm just saying we have come to the conclusion that the GDC has not defined these terms: grasp, grappled, or grab and neither robot literally grasps, grapples, or grabs but figuratively does this based on what you see when it performs.

I love that 118 posted their thoughts but it is the hundreds of posts that follow quoting rules and answers that all lead to the same conclusion.

[rcmolloy]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

I'm just saying we have come to the conclusion that the GDC has not defined these terms: grasp, grappled, or grab and neither robot literally grasps, grapples, or grabs but figuratively does this based on what you see when it performs.

I love that 118 posted their thoughts but it is the hundreds of posts that follow quoting rules and answers that all lead to the same conclusion.

I believe that if the GDC distinguished the rules to be "attaching" to the field, this would have been resolved rather quickly. We all know what the true definition of attachment is and 118 clearly isn't attached to the field anyway since they never had to release any clamping mechanism.