Hovercraft?

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Originally Posted by thegathering

Hovercraft can be agile. They are very fast (capable of attaining speeds unlimited by the drive motors) but lack any kind of pushing power other than what is provided by the fans (which are designed to accumulate speed rather than accelerate rapidly).

Um, getting the speed is very unlikely on the field... you'd need room to accellerate. And, with the mecanum drive train 868 developed this year, i'd be surprised to see much of any robot out race it
( not to brag or boast... it even got us in trouble once, in auton, the programmers screwed up, and instead of going in our intended pattern, we got the switch construct wrong and instead went forward full speed... took us about 3 seconds to get from the furthest back square, to the opposite sides wall. We hit it so hard that it knocked the controllers off the shelf, the controller went so far it hit the knees of the other drivers... )

more relevent, a hovercraft isn't realistic because to get it floating, and keep it floating, you'd need a heck of alot of air... and i'm pretty sure that'd drain your batteries too quickly