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View Poll Results: How does your robot interact with balls on the ground?
Specific mechanism to herd them into the lower goal. 17 17.00%
Specific mechanism to pick them up from the ground and bring them inside the robot. 85 85.00%
Ground ball manipulation is not in our strategy. 13 13.00%
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Re: Who is picking up from ground?

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there are some more sacrifices. with a loader-type-thingie, you are now top heavy, you lose mobility, and you lose some time trying to wait for the balls to go into the top of the robot.
Not necessarily. Who says a loader has to bring the balls all the way to the top of the robot?

Our robot is going to have a picker-upper. The only thing we haven't got CADded yet is a way to channel balls to the center of the robot, where they are picked up.
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