Many of you probably don't remember 1519's Speed Racer from (*Breakaway*) Overdrive. They essentially had 2 configurations, one small and light, the other tall and heavier (and somewhat flimsy). Combined, they weighed less than 120 pounds. They would take the "guts" out of one configuration and put it into the other depending on what they wanted to do that match: speed around the track or toss the trackball. It was ruled that the two configurations were two separate robots, not one robot with two large and rather unconventional attachments.
So with this year's definition in the Glossary:
Quote:
ROBOT: an electromechanical assembly built by an FRC Team to perform specific tasks when competing
in AERIAL ASSIST. It includes all of the basic systems required to be an active participant in the game: power,
communications, control, mobility, and actuation. The implementation must obviously follow a design
approach intended to play AERIAL ASSIST (e.g. a box of unassembled parts placed on the FIELD or a ROBOT
designed to play a different game would not satisfy this definition).
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Would Speed Racer be legal?
The only constant in FRC is change. Learning to adapt to change in competition is the best way to prepare for change in real life. - Jessica Boucher [more] 
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