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abtei t1_ise22xb wrote

im sorry but that does not flip like 250lbs. physics do not look right if weight is correct.

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jon-in-tha-hood OP t1_ise2r63 wrote

Things scale you know? You just need enough force to be able to flip something 250 lbs and the builders behind the blue robot were able to do that.

In fact, they were debuting new technology to do that (it's confusing but you can read about it here ).

Pneumatic systems in robot combat have been doing this for decades. Here is another example from 2015. And here is another example from 20 years ago in the UK.

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