[matthewdenny]

If you are among the large group of people that consider motorsports to be sports, then robotics is very similar.

Both involve a group of people that build a machine that is driven by someone in their group in a competition against others.

In both cases both the design and manufacturing of your machine are critical as well as the gameday driving. The only difference I see is that we dont drive our machines while sitting in them, and that seems to be not significant.