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Re: 1519 - One Dual-Config Robot or Two Robots?

One interesting point I haven't seen brought up is that the rules state that ALL "PLAYING CONFIGURATIONS" as defined in the rules, must fall within the 120lb limit combined. 1519 did this.

The argument here appears to be whether Fezzik and Speed Racer are two ROBOTs or two MECHANISMs.

Sure, a team can build one drive base, and have two interchangeable manipulators, in fact, I would argue that this is the INTENT of the rule.

How is it any different for a team to build one manipulator with electronics attached, and a modular drivebase, allowing for a configuration change from perhaps a Track based drivetrain, to a swerve drivetrain, for example?

If those are no different, how is 1519s design of a singular ELECTRONICS board (which to me is the ROBOT, I'll explain this view in a second), with a multiplicity of MANIPULATORs and DRIVE BASEs as long as in ALL playing configurations, it meets the appropriate rules, and their COMBINED weight meets 120lbs.

My view that a ROBOT is constituted primarily by the RC, Radio, and Battery is this. Consider a human. We have a brain, and a body. We can lose many parts of our body (See: quadrapalegics (sp?)) and still function, but if we lose our BRAIN, we cease to exist, for all intents and purposes.
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