User blog comment:PerhapsTheOtherOne/Synthetics In RWBY and Beyond: What's that all about?/@comment-25405817-20150601025235/@comment-25405817-20150601230457

@Shadow: Who ever said anything about a research team? Do we actually know that there was a team in charge of building Penny?

What we know for a fact is that Penny was built by her father with Ironwood's help. That doesn't suggest the involvement of another party other than perhaps the military.

IF, there was a team, it could also be very likely that these team wasn't aware of Penny's true nature, believing that they were indeed helping in creating the first synthetic person capable of generating an aura. The only ones who would actually know the full truth are "Geppetto" and Ironwood.

@Live: That alternative is also very plausible.

And thanks for not giving me a hard time for once.