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[Necroterra]

Originally Posted by gblake

While the foam is deccelerating the spinning blade, the will be plenty of equal and opposite reactions going on that will affect both robots.

Also, in general, anything that does a lot of deccelerating in a short distance starts to be more like tire rubber, or loops of steel cable, than it is like foam.

I think I would prefer trying a mixture of sloped armor, mechanisms that would anchor me to the floor when struck, and/or actively grabbing the spinner while it is slow after a hit.

I'll admit I don't know much about the topic, but if you used the right density of foam (or maybe layers of scaling density), wouldn't the deformation absorb the impact and send you flying less? Solid steel won't get shredded by a spinner, but instead it just launches you away.