Hands off my bot

[Thermal]

Originally Posted by smurfgirl

If the robot is on, no one should be touching it, period. This is just common sense.

I'm sorry, but the prevelance of this idea is absurd to me. I see absolutely no reason as to why a person cannot be near a robot that is on. A healthy respect for injuries that a robot can cause DOES NOT require one to treat it like its a bomb about to go off. Honestly a robot that turned on is only as dangerous as the person controlling it. As is, everyone on the team should have a sense of trust in their driver, otherwise that person should not be controlling a robot.

As for touching, it's a... dare I say... touchy situation (har har har). If a person is attempting to do anything near any sort of moving chain or motorized rollers ect, the bot is immediatly disabled. However, lets say all of the power for our rollers has been removed, the bot can't do anything but roll around. A person touching the robot would have to be hard pressed to be injured by that action. Why they would want to touch the robot is beyond me, but they would not be injured unless they literally decided to lay down right infront of the robot before I had time to react and move/stop the bot. Something rather hard to do.