[FTC]: Opinion on lifting robots

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Originally Posted by ksafin

Never had to do anything about a robot lifting another, but like SuperNerd said, it should be fairly possible for all robots.

Of course, you still have to build your robot with this in mind. Our team had a preliminary idea of having our electronics and battery and NXT mounted on a plate that we could move horizontally from front to back of the robot to slightly shift the center of mass to adjust for robots being heavier or lighter.

Honestly though, there's been posts about people analyzing highest theoretical scores, and one said it was 1,720. In that score, 720 was from the weighted rings on the corner goal.

I think the weighted rings are BIG in this game. If you get 5 on, your score is doubled.

You need to have a score to be doubled... In which case you need a robot that can not only sort rings, and score them on the corner post but also a robot that can score on the center posts.

In the perfect alliance I see on robot which can lift other robots and sort rings... While the other robot concentrates on the center posts. In the end game one robots lifts the other, it really all depends on how efficiently you can score rings.