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Originally Posted by RoboChair
Based on how R1 has been worded in the Team Update, R1 is not defining what a ROBOT IS, it is describing what a ROBOT must HAVE to be allowed to compete.
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Originally Posted by R1
The ROBOT must be an electromechanicalassembly built by the FIRST Robotics Competition Team to perform specific tasks when competingin FIRST STRONGHOLD. The ROBOT must include all of the basic systems required to be anactive participant in the game -- power, communications, control, BUMPERS, and movement. [...]
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Originally Posted by Glossary
ROBOT: an electromechanical assembly built by an FIRST Robotics Competition Team to perform specific tasks when competing in FIRST STRONGHOLD. It includes all of the basic systems required to be an active participant in the game: power, communications, control, BUMPERS, and movement. [...]
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The basic difference between the two (besides that whoever was typing R1 doesn't like the space bar) is in this line:
The ROBOT
must include...BUMPERS
It [the ROBOT]
includes...BUMPERS
Since by definition (from the glossary), a robot includes bumpers, R1 is restating that in order to count as a robot that could pass inspection, it "must include" bumpers. As the definition of include is "to take in or comprise as a part of a whole or group" (Merriam Webster) bumpers are part of a robot.
This doesn't pose a problem with the frame perimeter, since R2 states that "The ROBOT (excluding BUMPERS) must have a FRAME PERIMETER contained within the BUMPER ZONE." Bumpers could legally be attached to the outside of frame perimeter during the match, since by bumper rules it will be less than 15" thick.
However, like originally pointed out, this poses a conflict with R4 and the starting configuration: "In the STARTING CONFIGURATION (the physical configuration in which a ROBOT starts a MATCH), no part of the ROBOT shall extend outside the vertical projection of the FRAME PERIMETER, with the exception of minor protrusions such as bolt heads, fastener ends, rivets, etc."
There is one way around this though: the time during which "a ROBOT starts a MATCH" is only as long as the start of a match. However, since the state of the match goes from "before the match" to "during the match," that period of time is infinitely small, or alternatively, doesn't exist.
But since G7 states that "when placed on the FIELD for a MATCH, each ROBOT must be: [...] D. Confined to its STARTING CONFIGURATION," the match must start as soon as robots touch the field. Since robots and people do not move infinitely fast, this would make it seem like it is impossible to get robots into a configuration from which a match could start.
The glossary once again saves us though, as a FIELD is "a 26 ft. 7 in. by 54 ft. 1 in. carpeted area, bound by and including the inward-facing surfaces of the GUARDRAILS and two (2) CASTLES." The field is purely two dimensional, and robots not touching the carpet are not on the field. Therefore, before the match starts, robots not touching the carpet are exempt from G7, and can wait until the match starts.
Therefore, the only legal robots in 2016 are flying robots.