Is a disabled bot considered a bot?

[Matthew2c4u]

Lets say a robot gets smashed into by a robot flying over a bump and subsequently breaks down. If the estop button is pressed that robot cannot receive penalty's. So, if a robot breaks down in the opponents zone area you cant send another robot over. Because if that robot also broke down (via estop) in front of a goal, both robots would be immune to penaltys.
However, what about if you sent a robot over to flip your robot back over, the robots are then protected due to the 10 second helper protection.
Basically theres lots of contradictions here. Wait for a team update/ q&a to revise because theres no use thinking about it now.