Robot ideas

[NoSkaOnTheRadio]

i was talking about the bonus points with my dad yesterday, and we came up with this idea.

1. your robot is fairly flat-backed, and about as tall as the sideboards (this is assuming a forklift-style innertube manipulator near the front of back of the robot: something tall, but not very deep).
2. you have a pair of springloaded panels on the back of your bot, such that if you pulled your bot parallel with the sideboards with a couple of feet in between them, you could release them and one would flip out laterally to create a platform, supported on one side by your robot and on the other by the sideboards.
3. the second panel that i was referring to would be attached to your first panel, but in a way that it would funtion as a ramp.

i know the explanation is vague and probably tough to understand since i can't stand here and pantomime everything with my hands. it's also probably deeply flawed in ways i haven't noticed, but i mean this comment as a sort of jumping-off-point, something to get people thinking. take it however, i just thought it warranted at least a mention.