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Originally Posted by MattB703
The money's spent on a finished robot are "sunk costs". They will not be recovered whether the robot is kept or destroyed.
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well no, you cant get the investment back (how do you recycle invested time?!)
you run into this all the time in engineering - the first protoypes of a system you plan to build and sell for $500 might cost you $5k to $20k each. If the project gets shelved then all you have to show for the investment is two or three very expensive prototypes
at this point in the FIRST program each team robot has a value far beyond the sum of the components it contains. If you wanted the parts you could get everything that came in the KOP for another $4k or so, but if you wanted to build another robot just like the one you have, it would still cost you around $30,000 - because it would still be a hand built, one-off prototype.