Programming for money

[matthewdenny]

My first instinct is that this seems counter to the spirit of the competition. In retrospect go though I don't see how this is materially different from a team outsourcing the manufacturing of physical rebook parts to a company. It is quite possible that there are teams that are interested primarily in the building and not programming of a robot. for those teams they can still learn quite a bit from just the actual manufacturing of the machine minus the programming and still be inspired, perhaps even more so if programming has been your Achilles' heel in the past.