[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by hardcopi

I don't think it is un GP necessarily... that said I wonder if that was allowed why can't we just go to the top robotics firms in the world and say "Here's a fist full of cash, design us a robot. We will be back in 6 weeks to pick it up".

See if you can get one of those firms to build it for you for less than $4000 (R9).

I would fully expect any team taking up this offer to include the cost of the services on the BOM - you're purchasing a part (code) for the robot.

For what it's worth, my team is willing to help any other team figure out their code and teach them a few things along the way. We've been do it free for many years now, and annually present to a room full of other team sat the MN Splash event in December all we know about programming robots in java.