[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Chrisms

what it looks like to me, and i'm sure to the inspectors who have 40+ teams to deal with in a very short period of time. is that there are two, independent bodies. Thats probably the only reason it was not allowed.


MORT's electrical system this years drops out, and has anderson connectors on all the wires leading to off the board so that we can remove it to keep the metal shavings out. If we had a second robot that our electronics popped into, it would be a second robot, just with a hole in the bottom for the board to screw into.

the fact that they have two independently standing + operating superstructures is what didn't allow it. I think everyone is missing the fact that both of these robots are robots in their own respect. The only difference is one of them doesn't have an RC hooked up to it. Besides that, they are fully functional alone. And thus, independent of each other.

A arm alone, is not a robot, it's an arm(in this competition, since an arm alone wouldn't really function for points). A gearbox with a wheel, is just a gearbox with a wheel, it isn't a robot. thats how a modular robot would have to be made for it to instantly be seen as "one robot"

thats my take, and i think how the people who made the call saw it. I still think it's amazing they made weight and such... with that in mind, did both fit in the starting config? I don't know if that was discussed.

But isn't a frame with motors attached just a frame with motors attached until you add in the ROBOT controller, to make it a ROBOT? The superstructures can't operate without their brain, and since theres only one permissible ROBOT controller for each team (the 2008 one issued in this years KOP), theres only one ROBOT.