Arm Designs

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Cory

If you've ever watched forklifts before, you notice that on some, they dont extend upwards to just the top of the vertical segment. It's like a telescoping pole. the segments in front of the first vertical piece start extending from the top of that point (for our purposes 5') and allow you to reach a much higher height

I'm a fork truck driver (narrow aisle) and the front end of the truck is heavy and needs to be counter balanced or it'll tip over. I would assume the same would apply to the robot if something similar was made (I think the robot would end up way overweight and also easy to tip over).