Re: Do you think a practice robot is needed to compete?
The poll answers aren't all inclusive.
As others have mentioned, you don't "need" a practice robot to compete, but I feel it helps if you can pull it off.
We have had practice robots in the past few years that aren't as complete as the competition one, for drive practice and working out programming etc.
There should be a category:
"We build one if we have the time and resources to be better prepared for competition"
We are going to try to build (2) robots this year as complete as possible for better practice and fixing problems as the season progresses.
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