Can the robot extend outside of the bumper zone.

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Originally Posted by comphappy

No it is only still 2/3 but there will have to be bumpers to some extent on all sides now.
See quick drawing attached.

bah, need to get faster at my sketches eric beat me to it.

If you're willing to take the apparently throwaway statement ("If implemented as intended, a ROBOT that is driven into a vertical wall in any normal PLAYING CONFIGURATION will always have the BUMPER be the first thing to contact the wall.") beyond the ludicrous extent to which the GDC has already stretched it to, sure. But otherwise, the only rule that says something like that is <R08>I:

Originally Posted by section 8

BUMPERS must protect all exterior corners of the BUMPER PERIMETER (see Figure 8 - 2).