[bobby5571]

Great question! For a number of years, I led the Engineering Team of the Northrop Grumman's Unmanned Ground Vehicle Subsidiary (Remotec). Our "Robots" have been used by military and first responder bomb squads. These are teleoperated vehicles and save lives every day they are in use. They are called bomb squad robots. Autonomy is one facet of a robot's capability. " Self drive cars" are "cars" first. So I would take issue with anyone who claims that FRC Robots do not qualify as Robots. The autonomous period of a match demonstrates they are capable of achieving this goal also.