Clarification required on walker rule

[Garfie489]

As this will start off as a beetleweight, is there an equivalent FRA email address for technical questions? or would a Mentorn ruling cover FRA beetleweight competitions as well.

The FRA rules state explicitly that it requires 2 degrees of freedom to classify as a walker. If you have any specific questions its best to ask the EO of the event your attending or a recognised Tech Checker.

[Theo]

Basically, if any part of it rotates, it's a shuffler. Anarchy's mechanism, drillzillia, Ansgar, Son of Whyachi, etc are shufflers. Anarchy was considered a walker, but they've pretty much tightened the rules a lot more because of SOW to the point where they're so slow and delicate, it's impossible for them to be competitive.

[Igor]

I've now received a reply form Robot Wars.

Although each leg would have 2 degrees of freedom, it is the continuous rotation that qualifies it as a shuffler. As Robot Wars qualifies robots with rolling or sliding mechanisms as shufflers, It looks like continuous rotation counts as a rolling mechanism and so only gets the shuffler allowance under Robot Wars rules and no extra allowance under FRA rules.