Designing a climbing mechanism for 2013... a humbling experience

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by danopia

For those of you that have ideas for a 30-point climb, would your robot be able to scale to a pyramid of, say, 10 levels without nontrivial changes? Ignore your robot hanging 30 feet in the air.

It seems like some postings I've seen would because it's repetitive, and others have like a full dance routine going on that lands perfectly on top and wouldn't work for any other pyramid.

Originally Posted by FrankJ

A fall from zone 3 will pretty much end your robots day. I don't really see the risk/reward as worth it. It will be interesting to see somebodies creative solution to this.

Partly for that reason, and partly for added stability, our design is basically doubled on each level. Grabbing twice instead of one per level should prevent any catastrophic failures!