Is Robot balanced?

[Blitz]

It feels a bit crazy to get an advancement card of your choice from the 5 displayed and has led to several overwhelming games where one player manages to dominate the selection with 2 robots. Futurist makes it even more crazy. Blue seems to get A LOT of nice things.

What about a change to make it so it grabs the top card of the deck instead?

[Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau]

Agreed robot seems way overpowered.
Maybe if it didn't award advancement cards when placed during the first 1-2 games.
The part about placing on top of it is fine, but just by placing it you get an advancement card is ridiculous

[Stone]

Robot isn't overpowered per se, it's the fact that the Blue player gets to keep one always that skews the game a bit.

[Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau]

I think the robot by itself isn't overpowered.
If each player has equal access to minions then they are relatively balanced but I think a big problem is that in smaller player games having a single minion and then not building the related building which gives access to them makes one player way too powerful.