Are you lifting another robot?

[JohnFogarty]

So....my question is how many of you are lifting another robot. How high can you lift them and how reliable is your lifting method.

I'll start out. We can lift the maximum scoring bonus of 24" no problem. We can lift higher but there's no point in that obviously. We have a custom hand made scissor lift for our design.

[wgardner]

See the youtube playlist below for a number of matches where end-game lifts occur. Most are ramps that folks drive on, but not all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVQH1...4vD tnC5z14Qw

[JesseK]

I can get some hard #'s later. One of my school's teams has a 18-ish" forklift that can be configured for a variety of frame types. Basically they orient the forks for the drive train of the partner. The forks are 'bent' diamond plate and the lift can push up some heavy weights without issue. The lift combined with the defensive drive train (that won them champs last year) won them a qualifier; we'll see how they do at states in late Feb.

[kiwikids]

Our team is ignoring the liffting gameplay completely, it immobilises both robots and in the meantime our team can place 4 or 5 rings on the top row of the rack, giving us quite a reasonable score without the need to lift the robot, plus if the opposing alliance is lifting, we can claim any pegs we want to at the last second, giving us an even greater score bonus.

[JohnFogarty]

I promise you can't score 140+ ring points in 30 seconds.

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by John_1102

I promise you can't score 140+ ring points in 30 seconds.

Not even if it completes rows? (Sorry, haven't done a full analysis). Not even with two undefended robots?