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Like the ‘Borg’, we learn and quickly. We realized that a few robots can claim totes from the landfill area in the center of the playing field, avoiding the faster, skilled robots. So we started to concentrate on this during the competition (in fact, it is how we scored our points) and came up with some very good ideas as to how to make the current robot more adept. We will eliminate the grippers and attach a “rake” or “comb” to the elevator, the fingers of which will fit under the lip of the totes. We can then drag totes from the landfill area onto the scoring platform. So between now and the Silicon Val- ley Regional, we will implement this strategy. Last week we found a garden rake behind the
barns and verified that this will work and started fabricating a rake which can be mounted on the elevator.
A couple of other highlights from the competition: our lapel button was among the most popular at the competition — we exhausted our supply. Thanks to Carolyn Akers for a superb job designing them.
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The robot (Team 751) on the field at the start of one of the matches.
The team at Central Valley Regional (CVR) in Madera.
