Robot General Approach?

[MrJohnston]

So, there's lots of chatter about what robots will and won't be able to do, how many points they are going to score, etc.... I think most of us are at a far more primitive level with our designs... We've thought through the game, identified various roles that successful robots could have within alliance strategies we think will bring us victory, weighed these ideas against one-another for various levels of competition we anticipate facing and have come up with a general concept for what we want our robot to do. We are now looking to maximize potential within that concept... I suspect most folks are somewhere around this point in their robot development. So.... What do you envision as being your robot's primary role in an ideal alliance?