Elevators/ Forklifts

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Originally Posted by zander_108

Depending on what you want to do, you'll have different ways of going about these lifting methods; One is the forklift type of lifter. This is usually done with chain, either in continuous paths, or all individual per section. Then there's ideas such as elevator designs, which use scissor-type lifting.. For this you could either use pneumatics, or linear actuators... or possibly have a high-torque motor at the center axis of the sicssors themselves...

just throughing out some ideas

Our team is staying away from scissor lifts because we do not have the tools to machine the parts necessary to make a scissor work. We prefer the forklift style over scissors by a wide margin.
We want someting similar to 1072, 245 or 111's robots (but not as fancy) from 2005