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Re: Fully autonomous robots?
I had plans on doing this since last november when an alumni from our team chalenged me saying a fully autonomous robot would never survive in first. He did say that a pannel for the "driver" with general tasks, such as buttons for say "avoid all objects", "play defence", "shoot at will" and so on would constitute as still being fully autonomous. Which is exactly what I plan on doing with our team... however to this point one thing seems to be stoping me... TIME(as I am a lone programmer).

Now as I am sure you picked up I think it is feasible. and things a robot could do better: keeping away from penalties for one... as it would be easy to program in preventive measures from getting them.
Now the other thing I will want to include is a manual override system for tougher matches. or when we are in a pickle.



Oh yeah one more thing... is there anyway that the robot could remember information, ie a robot that improves as matches go by...

and last tracking a sphere isn't to hard, already have had some success with it and the green light.
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