Hi, so I notice the material for the adhesive foam listed on vexrobotics.com is made of polyurethane foam. If we were to use other commercially available adhesive foam, would it have to be made of polyurethane, or could it be made of other material?
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Official Q&A: VRC 2018-2019: Turning Point
134: Adhesive Foam Material
Answered by Game Design Committee
See <R7b>, quoted here for reference:
<R7> Robots are allowed the following additional “non-VEX” components:
b. Any parts which are identical to legal VEX parts. For the purposes of this rule, products which are identical in all ways except for color are permissible. It is up to inspectors to determine whether a component is “identical” to an official VEX component.
If the commercially available adhesive foam was identical to the foam found on www.vexrobotics.com, including (but not limited to) physical properties such as density and material, then yes, it would be legal.