[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

I like this. It also allows referees to better judge intent, because they've been watching the same robot the whole match.

I'd add a clause that if a robot is trying to pick up a ball, and two end up touching the collector, that's not a foul.
I can recall multiple times this season where teams are going to pick up balls and get penalized for touching two of them. Also a particularly memorable one was where 2791 was lining up to shoot their batter shot, and two balls happened to be sitting in front of their robot when they did so. 2791 wasn't trying to pick those up, but they got fouled for it anyway.

This is one of those rules that was called differently per region. Some regions were much stricter about how "possession" was interpreted than others - in NE this kind of thing was basically never called unless a robot was clearly controlling two balls at once. I hope this is how IRI calls it as well. No need to bog the game down with these kind of penalties.