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Originally Posted by Robot Sans
I don't think so. Robot parts are getting cheaper day by day. The quality of robots has visibly improved over the years...look at 2003 and now. This change is attributed to higher level resources being made more readily available. I'm sure there are companies if presented with Ariel Assist 10 years ago they could have made something to a similar quality of 254's barrage. Each year the bar is raised in general and one day it will be cheap/easy enough that every one can make a practice robot.
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I'm not concerned about the cost, parts are getting cheaper all the time. My concern is with the student/mentor dedication required to build a second robot. Many teams don't even have the dedication to build one robot well, so there is no way, even if it were free, that they would be able to build two robots in one season.