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Originally Posted by CalTran
Isn't the professional level for us called a job?
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Hey!
I believe what OP was saying was that, there should be a "professional" level of building and competing with competitive robots in a non work place setting, and by non work place I mean
non traditional work place where events and decisions are being televised or observed.
For instance, a person can aspire to be a pit crew worker on a professional Nascar or F1 team, and consider that truly "professional" because of the high caliber and televised nature of their job.
On a different note, your question is also quite valid. It fits within the FIRST idea of "everyone can go pro."
To answer OP's original question, I believe that in order for competitive team based robotics to happen, major cities and large areas of population would have to setup a league. This league would sort of have to develop into a national conference for the idea of competitive team robotics to take off.
I think that it would be quite cool to have such a thing happen, sort of like FRC scaled to a larger budget and more experience skill set.
It would also be cool to see the interviews of people on the team, and not just the stars. Like in baseball after a no-hitter people talk to the pitcher, in the world of competitive robotics, the driver would be interviewed.