Self-righting

[Mullen]

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

As one of the technical mentors showed me (as I was screaming at him), it would take a pretty good fall for us not to be able to get back up. I think that they have so much weight in the front that it just pops back up again.

Quick explanation for beth's comment, as i was the one ignoring her screams:
i was able to tip our robot so that the highest most point was about 1ft from the ground
as we stand now our robot is only 68 pounds (we will be adding more) but of those 68 pounds, 65 of them are within 9 inches of the ground because the rest is just a hopper. we also plan on adding an extra 50 to the chasis at the competition, as well as battery and bumpers. So in the end, we should have about 140/145 pounds within 1ft from the ground spread out through the entire chasis
needless to say, with such a low CoG, we shouldnt have any tipping issues with our bot