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Something tells me that that would further tip the balance squarely in favour of the teams with the best funding or resources (who can afford to buy expensive components off-the-shelf, or commit resources to a production run).
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I hope there are not too many teams who cannot afford to spend the allowable amount on their robots - what is the cap these days? $3.5k?
if a team is going to sell a transmission as a COTS kit to other teams, it cant be expensive, because they have to use the same price on their bill o materials as they charge other teams for the same transmission.
so the incentive would be to psuedo-mass produce an inexpensive robust COTS mechanism, that any team could afford (as a small part of their total robot BOM budget).