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Originally Posted by IKE
I put "need" in quotes because of the 2011 1503 machine that seemed to defy common logic on what was needed to be excellent.
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That robot was optimized to score the top row, making tube reorientation unneccesary, as the tube was always in the same plane as the arm. The plan from the get-go was to take care of the top row and let more complicated robots worry about the bottom two. We discussed having a wrist on the end of the arm even after we had abandoned fighting for tubes on the floor, and deemed it still unneccesary for our strategy that year.
-Nick
With any dollar amount to invest I would be more interested in the number of individuals (students is too narrow) impacted than the number of teams created--after all, this is about people. - kramarczyk [more] 
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