Safety Issue: Robots Moving in Pits

[Jacob Bendicksen]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Im sorry to hear that your dad was hit by a robot. I personally was hit by a robot last year and it hurt but I laughed it off. It was going full speed and I had a bruise on my thigh but I still would not want a rule to prevent people running robots on the floor of a competition. We built our first real robot cart this year and it does have pegs to lift the wheels but I still want to put it on the floor to test some things.

I don't think people have any problem with other functions being tested while the robot's on the floor (i.e. no one's getting mad at us for running our elevator when the robot's on the floor). The problem is robots driving when they're on the floor.