RI3D this year?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by audietron

What is your reasoning for not wanting it?

The usual reasons I see are something along the lines of this:

By running through a lot of the prototyping, with lots of teams watching, there are a lot of what you might call "copycat" robots. These robots take the designs and just build those, whichever ones they like, rather than taking the IDEA and running with it, or developing their robots fully independently.

These are valid reasons, for some folks. For others, those robots are exactly why Ri3D exists...


I'm a fencesitter on this one; I can see both the risk of copycats and the "oh, hey, this works, how do we optimize it for our current design/manufacturing situation" factor at play. Therefore, I remain undecided.