Magnets, how do they work?

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Magnetic hold-down is not like adding extra weight to the bot as the bot's inertia stays the same and the effort needed to accelerate it will also be the same.

So does that mean that it won't have any benefits to the machine other than downforce, I.E. if I loaded HardWired (at 13kg) up with 200kg worth of magnets, and ran into another machine, it'd only be like 13kg of robot running into it, not 213kg?

I think that'd be a big improvement too with the vertical spinners and the drums, an improvement in stability would certainly make them a lot deadlier. I'd love to try and get a full-body-spinner using something like that so that a single hit doesn't launch it when you get a really big hit, but I'm sure that there's more complex problems than just magnets would solve!

"Been looking at magnets for HardWired II to make a relatively flipper-proof configuration"

A flipper-proof configuration exists it's called Seraph

Ahhh, I see what you've done there - Unfortunately though, the wheels are about 3 feet too big to work on my design