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| + | ====== Flippers ====== | ||
| + | Flippers are one of the most popular weapons. At a basic level, a flipper consists of an arm designed to slide under the opposing robot, and then raise up-wards to turn the opponent over. If the other robot has no way of getting back onto its wheels this can prove an effective means of immobilising it. | ||
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| + | In the heavier weight classes they are usually pneumatically powered, while most Antweight flippers are powered by servos or motors. However there have been a few [[Antweights]] with pneumatic flippers. Many of these used pistons and gas tanks from the Lego pneumatics set, which provides a faster and more powerful flipper than using servos. | ||
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| + | Some of the most successful and popular robots throughout all the weight categories have been flippers. For instance: | ||
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| + | >Toro (former [[superheavyweight]] champion) | ||
| + | >Chaos 2 (former 2 time [[heavyweight]] champion) | ||
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| + | >Stewie (the runner up of AWS 25) | ||
| + | >Odyssey (Antweight with 3 championships) | ||
