What would you do...

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Originally Posted by David Guzman

packbot

awesome as this is, i kinda drove one of these
our robotics class last year went to a military..thing. name=am i allowed to say???? haha

and they had 5 different vehicle/robots/awesomness to show and 2 automated gun turrets and an automatic shotgun mounted to one of the robots.

very fun. for me atleast (after a 5 hour talk with their lead engineer) VERY educating.
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good idea. more life like scenario. arent going to see a 120lb 'bot scoping out a new planet earth for the potential survival of humankind

butttt....plus one on all the problems it would bring. plus one on incredibly expensive and wayyy to inconvenient for all. safety concerns would skyrocket.

[Simon Strauss]

I would actually like to see FIRST go in the other direction, that is half the size and half the weight.

I think that this is what would really make the competition more interesting by forcing teams to become more aware of what they were doing with their materials and space as well as making more compact and hopefully complicated robots.

Another plus of this would be that smaller robots would allow for more movement on the field or possibly more teams competing at once? With FIRST growing in popularity and the number of matches each team gets at a regional shrinking i think that this would be a nice way to increase playing time.

just my $.02

Simon