The most prevalent design as of now is a clawbot, and people are doing both motorized and pnuematic claws. There’s been a lot of discussion of how many actuations you can get from 2 tanks of 100 psi air, but how many do you actually need?
For skills, I estimate 2 actuations for preloads, 2 for the 2 cubes on the field, 2 for the stars in between the alliance tiles, and 2 for the 4 corner stars, so I’ll put 8 as a minimum.
The most actuations I’ve heard of a claw getting is 52, so I’ll put that as a maximum.
So between 8 and 52, how many actuations are actually necessary?
We got 52 full actuations, but the last 5 or so were pretty sketchy. I think 35 is a nice place to be to be comfortable in a match, but of course more is better. We also run pneumatics elsewhere in our robot, so we’re never really going to get all of the actuations.