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Originally Posted by jminer19363
So my team is debating on whether to have wheels or not. In the rules, it says, "The Robot must include all of the basic systems required to be an active participant in the game - power, communications, control, mobility, and actuation."
Does climbing count as mobility or would the lack of wheels be illegal?
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Climbing would definitely count as mobility and should result in a legal robot, presuming that you satisfy all other rules.
There is some speculation that the reason for the sentence you quote (in R01) is to keep teams from doing something wildly absurd like claiming that the electronics board is the robot, and that the mobility system (whether for climbing or driving around the field) is just a mechanism that might be added, removed, or swapped in different configurations of the robot as described in R05.

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