Powered Robot Carts

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Originally Posted by CraigHickman

But anywhoo, my old team looked at doing that... and decided it's already stressful enough to keep the robot battery live, adding another battery to that would make competitions even more tough.

Nuclear powered robot cart, anyone?

Originally Posted by Blue_Mist

You forgot the blood! I can't count the number of times that I or a team member have scraped or cut ourselves on robot or cart, especially since the 2007 robot had an off-board compressor. Someone built a simple shelf to hold the box so it could charge the robot while the robot was being hauled from Pit to Arena. Fine, except that the shelf dual functions as a razorblade when the compressor box isn't on it.

I think the blood was mostly from the robot, either lifting it on or off the cart. Simply pushing the cart was not, as I observed, a lethal activity. Was anyone really de-ankled by the compressor box shelf?