Welcome to the Tumblr home of the sport of robot combat! Popularised by British TVās Robot Wars, and American TVās Battlebots, Robot Combat is a worldwide sport in which so called āroboteers,ā from many walks of life, chiefly engineers and technical workers, bring their home built remote controlled fighting machines to compete in battles against each other ā all against all ā usually for three minutes, in an enclosed arena in front of an audience. The objective for any robot in a fight; whether it be two robots in the arena or even more than six; is to be the last bot standing, by surviving the combat while immobilising enemies. Robots come in all shapes and sizes. There are numerous weight classes, from robots weighing as little as 75g, to others weighing over 12kg (30lb), and to heavy and superheavyweights, weighing up to or above 100kg (220lb). Some robots have no weapons at all, whereas others have powerful flipping arms, axes, pincers and spinning blades ā awfully destructive when used by the right roboteer. Despite having only appeared on TV once properly since the end of Robot Wars, on the Gadget Show UK TV series, robot combat is still popular, with live events hosted often, all across the UK, US and other major countries. For those of you who saw Robot Wars and Battlebots on TV, you should know that in the past ten years, the robots have become more advanced, tougher, more manoeuvrable, and more destructive. The fighting has intensified greatly! So it is definitely worth heading to a live event near you soon. This blog is run by me (Tom) and my mate Andy, British featherweight roboteers. Here, weāll be keeping you up with the latest robot fighting news, videos and pictures from battles, up to date information on interesting robots being built right now, and information about upcoming events. We hope to be seeing you at one of the shows soon :)
I LOVED this show to pieces as a kid, like youāve no idea at all how hyped me and Sarah were when we saw these, WE DIDNāT KNOW THEY WERE SO HUGE. They really made being soaked to the bones and inside that stuffy building well worth it.
Oh I canāt tell you how delighted I was to see them ^-^!!
you should see the live shows, my friend owns (not the original builder) Dantomkia now. LOTS of shows in Europe, several competitions. You bet theyāre huge - 220lbs!Ā
In the US we had an even bigger weightclass, 340lb super heavyweights. Walking superheavyweights could weight 480lbs!Ā
My old bots are managing very well today. Two fights in for each of them the results are encouraging, Cyberon, the pushbot, has secured two second places in fights of three, and Wedgie, the flipper, has won its two fights by knockout. Fantastic performance so far. Wedgie had its door whacked in, Cyberonās wood got a little cut up and so did its scoop, but itās nothing a suitably big hammer canāt deal with.
Minion vs Codebreaker from Battlebots season 5. Super Heavyweights were always cool to see, Minion was one of my favorites every season. He gets pretty beat up here though.
Because Robot Combat League is not real. People are freaking out going āOmg this is the start of robot combat as a sport! Itās finally a thing!ā Itās been a thing for decades. But what is new is staged robot combat like what you see in Robot Combat League. The damage from each hit in that show is completely disproportionate to the force of the blow. Any real roboteer will tell you that just one of those big, fiery, spark filled hits would put a robot out of action in real life. The robot operators and their backstories on Robot Fighting League are nothing like those of real roboteers. The show is made to be more glamorous than real robot fighting; and more similar to boxing. I can tell you, the best design for a fighting robot is no way a humanoid one. My 15kg little robot could slaughter one of your precious Robot Combat League show robots in quick time. I donāt know how anyone takes that show seriously; itās like the WWE of the robot fighting world.
I donated to this. If you are a Battlebot or Robot Wars fan, maybe you found robot combat later when it was Combots Cup and other competitions.Ā
either way, please support this. They only need 10K and that's going to renovate their arena.
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