Students or engineering desingn robot

[rcubes85]

Is First about Students the robot or the Professional who desingn the robot, cause i loook at a lot of these robots that pictures of the one that has being uploaed and many of them seem to be desinged by a profesional and little is done by the students. OR my bee i am worng and more school just have better equipment and knowledge of whast to do? When THEY SAY IT WASNT MEAN TO BE FAiR,

[srjjs]

Some teams don't have access to the facilities for this kind of work, so the students can't make the robot, the have to have a machine shop do it for them. We are pretty lucky, we have enough power tools to build a pretty good robot, bandsaw, mill, lathe, etc.

[Andy Baker]

This topic gets raised frequently, and there are some good threads on this subject.

Here is my favorite:
Student involvement discussion (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=557&highlight=education+inspiration)

Andy B.