Petition to call this design the dunkbot

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For gods sake I want the meta name to be interesting and not the conveyor bot pls not that.

  • DUNKBOT!!
  • stupid Conveyor Bot
  • something else???
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Well… in gateway, we used to nickname this similar looking design aa snail-bot…

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conveyor gang OP
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Snail gang OP

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I thought we were calling them snails?

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yeah… calling them snails since 2012…

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Really? Can you share some pics of 2012 snail bots? I haven’t seen any.

I know that the “snail bot” design has been around since at least Round Up:

And there was a team (40B) in Elevation that used a similar design (albeit different in some ways) that looked like a snail:

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Sorry… I remember wrongly - it was in 2011.

And @RoboCatz just posted an even earlier snail that I have forgotten.

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I’ve just been calling them hoods. To me the hood doesn’t really spiral enough to be a snail, but I do see the resemblance lol.

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