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Our team (610) robot also has a mechanism for doing something similar. It is a wedge. Basically, we slide the wedge under another robot and it lifts two of the wheels up. There are little claws on the wedge that come up and hook onto the opposing robot's structure so that they can't drive off the wedge unless we retract the claws. It works and we haven't had an incident where we damanged another robot with the wedge yet. But we were afraid to use it after we got a warning cuz our wedge got under a goal. So, in the finals of the Canadian Regional, we tied up the wedge so it wouldn't come down. The added weight adds to our traction while reducing traction of the wedged robot.

Our intent wasn't to destroy or damage a robot. In fact, our mechanism for grabbing the goals was the one to cause more damage. Sorry to that team, if you are reading this btw...

I'm sorta angry that FIRST left this so open. Cuz some teams don't even think of this strategy because they think it is illegal.... and they get angry when they see other robots using it. I completely understand. That's why we don't use our wedge much. And we probably won't use it much at the Championship too....
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