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From: Chris Cantor <cc@cs.brown.edu>
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Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 12:51:58 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject:  pen for find life on mars event?
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Hi.       
 
Our robot does not have a grasper that is dynamic enough for us    
to successfully catch martians.  What this means is that we have to
design some kind of addition to the arm to successfully trap
the squiggle balls.  As we design this, we need to know if 
the lip on the pen be removed
so that we can push the martians in, or if teams have an option 
of a lip/door configuration?  Also, if the pen "lip" was to be optional,
what would be the penalty for squiggle balls unsuccessfully deposited
in the bin (either balls that got out or balls that, for reasons of
the pens incompatibility with robot hardware, did not make it in).

-Chris

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Christopher Cantor
cc@cs.brown.edu