1519 - One Dual-Config Robot or Two Robots?

[Paul Copioli]

All,

I have read most of the posts and, although the response from GDC was poor, the basic robot structure item is really what gets me.

I am in the robot industry (and that may be the reason for my bias), but a pile of electronics is never, ever considered a basic robot structure. Would the wires and furnace and pipes of a house be considered the basic building structure? No way.

I do not think 1519 lawyered the rules, but the flaw in the logic was assuming the electronics are the basic robot structure.

Maybe the simple test in the future should be: the basic robot structure should be considered a collection of parts / assemblies that can move under power in at least one degree of freedom.

When I first saw the post, I thought "there is no way that can be considered one robot." The intent was clear to me, but I have been wrong before (see blocking in hybrid thread).