Manipulators: Claws vs rollers?

[pfreivald]

We are prototyping several different tube manipulators, including a simple claw and a 'roller claw'...

We are also making our robot modular, so that whatever ends up working best in practice is what ends up on the field!

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

We are also making our robot modular, so that whatever ends up working best in practice is what ends up on the field!

That's is a great way to go. In fact I seriously doubt we even ship our robot with a picker-up-thingy.

[pfreivald]

It's a lesson I learned in real-life engineering that I forgot at first in FIRST, and then remembered, and now am getting more and more insistent upon...