G423      SOURCE/AMP ZONE protection. A ROBOT may not contact (either directly or transitively through a GAME PIECE CONTROLLED by either ROBOT and regardless of who initiates contact) an opponent ROBOT if any part of either ROBOT’S BUMPERS are in the opponent’s SOURCE ZONE or AMP ZONE.

G424      STAGE protection. A ROBOT may not contact (either directly or transitively through a GAME PIECE CONTROLLED by either ROBOT and regardless of who initiates contact) an opponent ROBOT if either of the following criteria are met: 

G417      *Stay out of other ROBOTS. A ROBOT may not use a COMPONENT outside its FRAME PERIMETER (except its BUMPERS) to initiate contact with an opponent ROBOT inside the vertical projection of that opponent ROBOT’S FRAME PERIMETER.

G405      Limited AUTO opponent interaction. In AUTO, a ROBOT whose BUMPERS are completely across the CENTER LINE (i.e. to the opposite side of the CENTER LINE from its ROBOT STARTING ZONE) may contact neither an opponent ROBOT nor a NOTE staged in the opponent’s WING (regardless of who initiates the contact).