# "Upgrade to next Robo" / Auto teleport if continued pace pushing in front of RP

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**Category:** RoboPacers\
**Created:** [November 13, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/upgrade-to-next-robo-auto-teleport-if-continued-pace-pushing-in-front-of-rp/616179 "2023-11-13T16:27:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tom\_J](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/gozwift/user_avatar/forums.zwift.com/tom_j/32/473097_2.png) [@Tom\_J](https://forums.zwift.com/u/Tom_J)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/upgrade-to-next-robo-auto-teleport-if-continued-pace-pushing-in-front-of-rp/616179/38 "2023-12-01T00:42:06Z")

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> [@Andrew\_Nuse](#):
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> Riding with her last night for 20m as a warmup required 2.78w/kg for me, seemed like a “smaller” group (probably 70-125ish folks, and not nearly as many were in front of Coco).  
> I had done a 20 minute warmup ride on Monday as well; it required 2.93w/kg, with a huge group (200+ I’m sure, majority of the field in front of Coco)

So here’s a question: aren’t you in that group being affected by the draft of the group in the same way that the Bot is?

If a Bot is listed at 3 w/kg, and you go in expecting 3 wk/g, but the group is big and so the Bot gets pulled along at faster speeds…why aren’t you being pulled along as well? In other words, if the Bot maintains that 3 w/kg but is getting pulled to faster speeds, shouldn’t you be able to maintain the same 3 w/kg and get pulled by the bunch to the same degree?

Am I missing some fact here about how the Bots work? I know they vary wattage by grade, but are they also varying wattage by speed too? I didn’t think they did? I thought that a 3 w/kg Bot would do (roughly) 3 w/kg on a flat if it was all by itself, and 3 w/kg on a flat if there are 100 people with it. The speed will go up in the latter case, but I thought the w/kg stayed the same, regardless of bunch size or speed. And if that’s the case, why isn’t your 3 w/kg being affected the same way?

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