Team Update #20/Scoring Examples

[Mark Garver]

Originally posted by Rook
What about robots that have arms? When the arm is raised, it can't be pushed under the bar. The arms, however, were designed with other functions in mind such as loading boxes or stacking them. Does such a robot get DQ'ed if it's arm is deployed and happens to prevent it from being pushed under the bar? It's not all just "common sense" the way Update 20 was worded.

I agree completely with what you are saying!! I know my other team 857 has the ability to do just that. Now we could lower it and be allowed to be pushed throw, however our arm any allows it to go one way. Being pushed in the other direction would do no good and break our robot.

All this talk about robots trying to prevent themselves from being pushed under the bar makes me think that there is some great advantage that I haven't thought about... Any help here? All you would be doing is stopping other limbo bots, however why do you ever need to stop robots? I thought the game was about bins? Maybe I misread the rules about the purpose of the game; again!! according to some...