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Re: Wheelless Robot?

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Originally Posted by Ken Streeter View Post
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.
Not many teams have gotten ROBOT redefined...

1975 in 2007 built a non-mobile robot as well. (Unfolds just after teleop starts)
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