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I am very interested in this. I can picture a few scenarios.
Imagine a robot clamps/hugs onto you. If you had a piston that shot out to push the grip away and the opposing robot's arm got snapped in half, who would be responsible? Did they take that risk when grabbing you or have you malitiously attacked their robot?
Our robot's underbelly has weak sheet metal with holes in it. If an opposing robot tries to use a forklift on us and breaks something, can they claim that we werent well designed? Or have they broken our robot and need to be penalized? Disqualified for malitious intent?
What are you allowed to grab? Touch? Can I poke a rod between spokes in a wheel to prevent it from moving? Theres a decent chance that this could harm a poorly-built robot. Would this violate entanglement maybe?
It would also be interesting to see spikes INSIDE a robot. If a robot rams you hard enough to penetrate your outer shell, could you have spikes inside to *discourage* overly aggressive behavior?
Lets say you had things like grippers and arms that reacted to sensors on your robot. A hard blow could cause these parts to trigger. If they are triggered (by a sensor not by operator), would you be responsible for any resulting damage?
Lets say someone picked our robot up. If we extended part of our robot inside their frame (assuming they had no side panels), and they moved us up or set us down and damaged their robot, would we be responsible?
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