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Originally Posted by Chris is me
Did his entire post go completely over your head? Seriously?
It's your duty in FRC to your teammates and alliance partners to put the most competitive robot possible on the field. A fully autonomous robot (assuming you do it, as literally hundreds of posts about the difficulties of such a system have again gone completely over your head) will in no way be better than a teleoperated robot with only 6 weeks of work.
Though honestly, you're lacking something far more important to your alliance partners than a good robot: good listening skills. Though, hey, everyone else in the world is your guinea pig anyway, you won't need to coordinate with them.
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Wrong sir. Very wrong. There is absolutely no duty whatsoever to field the best competitive robot a team can, absolutely not. It is your opinion that putting out a good tele-operated robot would be better than an autonomous one to work with, but that is just YOUR OPINION. The fact that others may share you opinion does not mean that it is going to be a fact, as it's still YOUR OPINION.
Going back to the FIRST acronym, For INSPIRATION and Recognition of SCIENCE and Technology, a working, functioning autonomous robot is hands-down the best way, IMO, to get people to be inspired by the competition. Interfacing with a human operator is a fine thing and all, but forcing a robot to run on it's own, and run well, is pure science and pure inspiration. People will respect that better than any winning robot that can do some things neatly and win, because FIRST and the FRC isn't about
winning.
If he can convince his team that this course would suit them well, and they feel like it's in their most inspirational interests to do so, they should. It's why they are building a robot, after all.