<p>As you can see from <a href="https://www.wizards.com/avalonhill/rules/roborally.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">page 6 of the rules</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><strong>Pushing Other Robots</strong></p>
  
  <p>When robots collide, one will push the other. Robots can be pushed
  anywhere on the board (or off the side!), even into a pit or onto a
  conveyor belt. A robot can’t be pushed through a wall, though, so the
  movement of a pushing robot will simply stop if the pushed robot runs
  into a wall. Robots can run into walls all day long without taking any
  damage from it, so they don’t accumulate Damage tokens this way.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>You always push robots, unless a wall prevents them from moving. So there is no mention of direction. As long as they collide they are moved. </p>

<p>This also works recursively. If robot A pushes robot B and robot B collides with robot C, then robot C is moved too (as long as there is no wall preventing movement of either robot.</p>

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2018-02-02T19:26:52.183Z
That is not the relevant rule book.. The 2016 wording is: If a robot enters a space occupied by another robot, the robot in motion will push the robot in the direction the pushing robot is moving until it ends is move.
Hauke Ingmar Schmidt
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2018-02-02T20:15:14.707Z
That still leads to the same conclusion.
Toon Krijthe
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2018-01-31T06:25:47.910Z
2018-01-31T06:25:47.910Z
Toon Krijthe
<p>Robots always push when moving into other robots.</p>

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2018-01-31T05:22:56.537Z
2018-01-31T05:22:56.537Z
My Turn Yet
<p>With "Boink" and "Crab Legs" robots can move sideways. Can they push other robots then when not facing them?</p>

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Can Robots push when moving sideways?
Hauke Ingmar Schmidt
# Can Robots push when moving sideways?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-01-28)

With "Boink" and "Crab Legs" robots can move sideways. Can they push other robots then when not facing them?

**Tags:** robo-rally-2016


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-01-31. Score: 3

As you can see from [page 6 of the rules](https://www.wizards.com/avalonhill/rules/roborally.pdf):

> **Pushing Other Robots**
>
> When robots collide, one will push the other. Robots can be pushed
> anywhere on the board (or off the side!), even into a pit or onto a
> conveyor belt. A robot can’t be pushed through a wall, though, so the
> movement of a pushing robot will simply stop if the pushed robot runs
> into a wall. Robots can run into walls all day long without taking any
> damage from it, so they don’t accumulate Damage tokens this way.

You always push robots, unless a wall prevents them from moving. So there is no mention of direction. As long as they collide they are moved.

This also works recursively. If robot A pushes robot B and robot B collides with robot C, then robot C is moved too (as long as there is no wall preventing movement of either robot.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: That is not the relevant rule book.. The 2016 wording is: If a robot enters a space occupied by another robot, the robot in motion will push the robot in the direction the pushing robot is moving until it ends is move.  
> **username_1**: That still leads to the same conclusion.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2018-01-31. Score: 1

Robots always push when moving into other robots.


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