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Official Q&A: VEX IQ Robotics Competition 2024-2025: Rapid Relay
2316: A new idea on the basis of < SG4>2.1
<SG4> According to SG4 and Q&A 2052,
d. No Robot(s) may be in the Load Zone at the time the Ball is released by the Loader. 2052 - lf the human Loader is no longer contacting a Ball that is being (or has been)Loaded, it is legal for a Robot to enter the Load Zone
it means that as soon as human loader opens his/her hands, Robot can go into Load Zone and load the ball. However, some umpires think that base on Figure SG-4, Robot has to wait untill the ball go on the field.
Our team want to design a new Robot to achieve the following target: Robot waits near by the Load Zone. As soon as human loader open his/her hands, the driver controls the Robot, and the robot goes into the Load Zone and gets the ball, before the ball touch the field.
Is this idea legal?
Because there may be Loading methods in which a human Loader "opens their hands" but is still in contact with the Ball, we cannot agree with your rephrasing of our ruling from Q&A 2052.
If the human Loader is still in contact with the Ball, the Robot cannot legally enter the Load Zone. Any strategy, including the one you've described, in which the Robot remains outside of the Load Zone until the human Loader has released the Ball is likely to be legal.