paper: Spanking the Children

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

I agree with the need to build a strong frame. But I haven't been able to convince the school board to build hallway walls strong enough to handle robot impacts. Bumpers to me have always been about protecting the world from the robot, rather than the robot from the world. (They also do a great job of eliminating "wedge-bots".)

But if you really like the sound of crunching metal, here's a great off-season event to get away from all those silly penalties and bumpers! http://www.botsiq.org/manage.aboutbbiq.php

Jason

Bumpers have always been about protecting the field from the robots. With the increase in power fields were getting pretty beat up. Still do to an extent (see 125 running our intake underneath the diamond plate at RI after a hit)