A member of team 6377 Howdy Bots from Austin prepares their robot for competition during last Saturday’s FIRST in Texas District Austin event at Anderson High School. One challenge in this year’s game is to lift your robot onto an 18 inch platform. Howdy Bots achieved this with an innovative design involving vacuum pumps, suction cups (seen here) and motors which grabbed the upper platform and flipped the robot on its back.
Find more pictures from this event at https://davewilson.smugmug.com/Robotics/FRC-Texas-District-Austin-Event-2019/.
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