Robotics Question of the Day!

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Originally Posted by EricH

Bumpers are #4, I think. The most important parts of the robot, in order:

Drivetrain, Drivetrain, Drivetrain, anything that makes the drivetrain legal (bumpers included), game object manipulation #1, game object manipulation #2, game object manipulation #3.

The difference in the game object manipulators: #1 is acquisition, #2 is delivery, #3 is either anything internal to the robot or working with any stationary field element. The reason they're game object manipulators is that it's quite possible that they may be dealing with stuff other than game pieces, like mobile goals or bridges or hanging bars.

Objection: this puts non-object endgame work no higher than 8, when in several (but certainly not all) years, endgame was arguably more valuable than object (acquisition/delivery) scoring.