Robot Wars is coming back

[31mph]

You're probably right

But I'll allow a bit of artistic license

[vonuber]

AshBurrows said:

Oh

Also did anyone else notice that the young pulsar kid was like "I have no engineering experience and just taught myself the tools, like... A drill." Yet he had a full catia model and amazing 3D milled parts? Wouldn't surprise me if there was 50k in that robot.
Also im going to guess there were some "consultants" involved...
Suspicious as heck to me.

There seems to be a lot of money in some of these robots.

[g4ry13]

The Thermidor 2 flipper looked rubbish, I remember that it used to be very good. Stinger from the old series was a much better robot than Gabriel.

It's quite amazing that robots still don't have proper self righting mechanisms which work.

It was wrong of the house robots to turn over an immobilised robot and put them back in action. If Pulsar lost that battle it would have been outrageous considering it was all done until Killalot righted the immobilised robot.

[Evangelion]

I thought this week's episode was rather average myself. All the losing bots - with the possible exception of Ironside - were pretty rubbish. I was glad Pulsar came back in; imagine what the next round would have been like if Gabriel had got through. Any of the big spinners would lacerate it to bits.

[anonymous-user]

I liked the idea of a robot from a few weeks ago where they were aiming low for the wheels; the one thing all of the robots rely on.

That got me thinking; rather than try and destroy a competitor, what if your attack was to just lift it enough so it couldn't power away and you were able to shunt around the arena and into the pit at will?

After last night's show, I wondered about a low robot with a low nose/ramp and the front and rear that could slide under a competitor, like how a trolley jack goes under a car. Smack bang in the middle of this machine would be a spinning drum to rip apart the underside of the robot that you've just scooped up.

Also I've never seen anything equipped with drills. I guess the forces needed to penetrate aren't possible on something that moves around.

If you had to design something for Robot Wars, what form of attack (or defence) would you have?

[hairykrishna]

AshBurrows said:

Oh

Also did anyone else notice that the young pulsar kid was like "I have no engineering experience and just taught myself the tools, like... A drill." Yet he had a full catia model and amazing 3D milled parts? Wouldn't surprise me if there was 50k in that robot.
Also im going to guess there were some "consultants" involved...
Suspicious as heck to me.

He has been building robots in lower weight categories for years. He also runs a website that sells parts for fighting robots.

[simonrockman]

DrSteveBrule said:

If you had to design something for Robot Wars, what form of attack (or defence) would you have?

Are you allowed netting? After Gabriel's axe got caught in the grill I thought a net, like a Retiarius would be pretty effective.

Simon

[MikeyC]

Evangelion said:

I thought this week's episode was rather average myself. All the losing bots - with the possible exception of Ironside - were pretty rubbish. I was glad Pulsar came back in; imagine what the next round would have been like if Gabriel had got through. Any of the big spinners would lacerate it to bits.

yeah, average episode

relieved that the 2-wheeled thingy didn't win the final (sorry!!)
those types of robots have little offensive capabilities, but are difficult to knockout

Ironside was clearly up-turned and had the House-robot not helping it, would surely have been counted out

Pulsar being knocked out early but then re-entering & winning the final highlights the poor format chosen for the matches
The Battlebots format of allowing wildcards through seems a far more sensible way
Pulsar was a nice bot, but clearly had some glitches which hopefully they'll sort out!

[anonymous-user]

simonrockman said:

DrSteveBrule said:

If you had to design something for Robot Wars, what form of attack (or defence) would you have?

Are you allowed netting? After Gabriel's axe got caught in the grill I thought a net, like a Retiarius would be pretty effective.

Simon

I don't think you are allowed anything that disrupts another machine i.e. netting, webbing, electronic intereference etc. Nor are you allowed flamethrowers or anything that fires a projectile.

Another idea would be like Razer, except with an pincher coming up as well as down to properly damage whatever is caught in it.

[AshBurrows]

One of the battle bots picks up other bots and holds them in the air while shooting a flame thrower at them haha. It's pretty rad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkB2X3lbnGc

Also they should get rid of the pit.

[Sonic]

MikeyC said:

yeah, average episode

relieved that the 2-wheeled thingy didn't win the final (sorry!!)
those types of robots have little offensive capabilities, but are difficult to knockout

Ironside was clearly up-turned and had the House-robot not helping it, would surely have been counted out

Pulsar being knocked out early but then re-entering & winning the final highlights the poor format chosen for the matches
The Battlebots format of allowing wildcards through seems a far more sensible way
Pulsar was a nice bot, but clearly had some glitches which hopefully they'll sort out!

That 2-wheeled thing was quite funny in that it was so basic and it's only redeeming feature was that its wheels were so big it elevated everything out of the way, and allowed it to just roll over any competitors, but it was pathetic in that it had near zero offensive and no ability to finish another robot off - not even to push it into the pit!

I was really glad Pulsar re-entered also, and that it won. It was a decent bot, and as you say highlights the problems with the format. I was gutted when Razer didn't make it very far as it's proven to be such a capable robot.

I dislike the pit, i mean it serves a purpose if a competitor is immobilised to put it in the pit and finalise the match, but beyond that it just seems very unfair and artificially creates unsatisfactory results. If the pit has to be there, i'd much rather that it could only be used in the last minute, or perhaps not used in the first multi-battle stages at all.

[227bhp]

DrSteveBrule said:

simonrockman said:

DrSteveBrule said:

If you had to design something for Robot Wars, what form of attack (or defence) would you have?

Are you allowed netting? After Gabriel's axe got caught in the grill I thought a net, like a Retiarius would be pretty effective.

Simon

I don't think you are allowed anything that disrupts another machine i.e. netting, webbing, electronic intereference etc. Nor are you allowed flamethrowers or anything that fires a projectile.

Another idea would be like Razer, except with an pincher coming up as well as down to properly damage whatever is caught in it.

There was a preview of next weeks which showed a 'bot with flailing chains, that could be interesting.

Has anyone noticed how one of the house robots is listed as weighing 750kg? That can't be right, one too many zeros on that maybe?

[ajprice]

227bhp said:

Has anyone noticed how one of the house robots is listed as weighing 750kg? That can't be right, one too many zeros on that maybe?

Sir Killalot, and yes it's right. Competitor robot limit is 110kg, other house robots are around 300kg.

And the flailing chains robot was Nuts from the first episode.

Edited by ajprice on Monday 22 August 13:34

[Some Gump]

If I was entering robot wars, I'd make a sphere that's slightly larger than the pit, with no offensive capabilities whatsoever.

I'd then watch the internet explode as their favourite robot breaks, and my utterly rubbish creation gets through.

[AshBurrows]

227bhp said:

There was a preview of next weeks which showed a 'bot with flailing chains, that could be interesting.

Has anyone noticed how one of the house robots is listed as weighing 750kg? That can't be right, one too many zeros on that maybe?

Nah that's right. Killalot is about as big as a person bent down.
Massive thing.

[McAndy]

After weeks of forgetting that this is back I finally watched last night's episode. Not great, and good grief, Dara O'Briain was lacklustre! He had no vivacity and brought the whole thing down due to lack of enthusiasm: anybody remember Craig Charles presenting? It seems odd, given how animated he can be on Mock The Week.

[anonymous-user]

AshBurrows said:

One of the battle bots picks up other bots and holds them in the air while shooting a flame thrower at them haha. It's pretty rad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkB2X3lbnGc

Also they should get rid of the pit.

The lifting idea is excellent. Shame flamethrowers aren't allowed in the UK version.

[227bhp]

ajprice said:

227bhp said:

Has anyone noticed how one of the house robots is listed as weighing 750kg? That can't be right, one too many zeros on that maybe?

Sir Killalot, and yes it's right. Competitor robot limit is 110kg, other house robots are around 300kg.

And the flailing chains robot was Nuts from the first episode.

Edited by ajprice on Monday 22 August 13:34

Ah I see, but that is 3/4 of a metric ton, wasn't it flipped last week? It can't weigh that much, it's more than a Smart car!

[anonymous-user]

227bhp said:

ajprice said:

227bhp said:

Has anyone noticed how one of the house robots is listed as weighing 750kg? That can't be right, one too many zeros on that maybe?

Sir Killalot, and yes it's right. Competitor robot limit is 110kg, other house robots are around 300kg.

And the flailing chains robot was Nuts from the first episode.

Edited by ajprice on Monday 22 August 13:34

Ah I see, but that is 3/4 of a metric ton, wasn't it flipped last week? It can't weigh that much, it's more than a Smart car!

I don't think Sir Killalot was flipped in this series – or ever. Shunt and Matilda were though. Killalot does get nose-heavy when hoisting up heavy robots but I've never seen him turned over by a competitor.

[ikarl]

I remember back to the 90's series and watching an American RW back then...

There was a team that just went with a robot that was really fast and manoeuvrable with a single spike on the front. If it had been able to self-right (of allow the wheels to propel it whether upside down or not) it would've been great.

So, if I was designing a robot - fast, manoeuvrable, no moving weapons, single spike and robust so nothing breaks.

Use the weight of the robot as your weapon!