pic: Velociraptor - Team 573's 2011 Robot

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@CalTran: We reduced our weight by cutting off whatever we could. A lot of it was excess metal from brackets. Our claw doesn't open up. We did toss around the idea after we saw a few teams have opening roller claws, but we felt that hinging our claw would cause problems with the carpet.

@Basel: Thanks for the compliments! We are obviously extremely proud of our design and we weren't expecting to perform as well as we did. We're definitely going to be iterating on certain aspects of the robot, like our minibot's speed, but in my opinion, we just need more practice. We didn't get too much practice time before Waterford, and I think if we can hit a practice field during our six hour window, we should be able to have a functional autonomous and have the ability to hang six tubes.