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Next Game Autonomous Mode

While watching a NOVA special about a completely autonomous robot race it got me on the line of thinking that robots in the future will be developed with the goal of minimizing the amount of human input by giving the robot the ability to make dynamic decisions in real time. From what I can gather many if not all FRC robots are, in over simplified terms, the merely most awesome RC cars on the planet and do not incorporate this idea.

Dose anyone think that next years FRC game should/will incorporate a larger focus on programing and building the robots to be more independent? Maybe a longer autonomous mode, or maybe a bonus for the robot completing the endgame without human input?
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