Robot Wars is coming back

[Otispunkmeyer]

Matt_N said:

Du1point8 said:

Will the robots be any better than the first time round?

Has technology improved so that the components can be hidden and thus meaning lucky shots are a thing of the past?

Check out some videos on youtube of Battlebots, they've not evolved massively interms of weaponary but there have been big jumps in motor tech, so you've now got the power to back up the weapon.

Robots like Ice Wave, Tombstone, Witch Doctor and Warhead are so destructive!

There was some robots with the ability to adapt to their opponents. Obviously has to be done before hand but I think Witch Doctor could use different armor attachments and the MIT bot had interchangable drive method (wheels, tracks or some wierd cam lobe arrangement that meant it was technically a walker, but it could move incredibly fast and had ridiculous traction).

[soad]

[uber]

They are filming this in a warehouse in Renfrew, they will need to make sure the robots are well weaponized to protect the host from the locals trying to steal them for scrap!

[MG CHRIS]

uber said:

They are filming this in a warehouse in Renfrew, they will need to make sure the robots are well weaponized to protect the host from the locals trying to steal them for scrap!

Scrap is at an all time low so no worries there.

Used to love watching this when I was a kid didn't they have a battle between the best flipper robots and they all turned on killalot and almost got him out of the ring.

[ajprice]

There will be Killalot https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xclzUDeziAY

[FourWheelDrift]

Been catching up with the old series 5 & 6 on Sky 2 and series 7 (the channel 5 one) on Challenge. Can't recall watching 7, might have been during the "can't receive channel 5 period"

I can't believe after 7 series there were still robot teams who thought a spike that moved out was a reasonable weapon. They never did any damage, fixed spike on a fast (Tornado, Storm 2) robot yes, but on a slow robot, pneumatically fired out. No way.

Also series 7 quality of Robots seems to have dropped, other than the seeded robots and Storm 2 the others wouldn't have looked out of place in series 2 or 3.

[FourWheelDrift]

Info on here plus results of the March 1st pilot show - http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Robot_Wars_(2016_s...

[ajprice]

FourWheelDrift said:

Been catching up with the old series 5 & 6 on Sky 2 and series 7 (the channel 5 one) on Challenge. Can't recall watching 7, might have been during the "can't receive channel 5 period"

I can't believe after 7 series there were still robot teams who thought a spike that moved out was a reasonable weapon. They never did any damage, fixed spike on a fast (Tornado, Storm 2) robot yes, but on a slow robot, pneumatically fired out. No way.

Also series 7 quality of Robots seems to have dropped, other than the seeded robots and Storm 2 the others wouldn't have looked out of place in series 2 or 3.

Its, odd, I don't remember the series 7 fights either while I've been watching on Challenge, but I do remember seeing Cassius Chrome and thinking it was a bit st for a house robot. Some of the Dutch robots have been pretty good though, especially Gravity.

[ajprice]

Watched the S7 final on Challenge lastnight. The new series talks about the 'bombproof' arena protection, the sides of the arena lastnight were made of clear polycarbonate stuff called Makroclear, looking it up says its used around the sides of ice hockey arenas. Typhoon 2 broke the arena sides, twice. I don't know if Typhoon is in the new series, but if it or anything like it is in there, that arena had better be very very bombproof.

[clonmult]

ajprice said:

Watched the S7 final on Challenge lastnight. The new series talks about the 'bombproof' arena protection, the sides of the arena lastnight were made of clear polycarbonate stuff called Makroclear, looking it up says its used around the sides of ice hockey arenas. Typhoon 2 broke the arena sides, twice. I don't know if Typhoon is in the new series, but if it or anything like it is in there, that arena had better be very very bombproof.

Typhoon 2 was potentially the most devastating of all the robots; I've been catching up on them via youtube - there is an (offical?) youtube channel with all the episodes.

From the wiki posted, it looks like everyone is just going for flipper designs.

[Sway]

The entry form requires quite a lot of detail of kinetic energy calcs - presumably to assist with seeding, possibly to prevent "killer" bots that'll wipe the floor with everything, and most likely to inform arena design for safety.

In terms of delivery of destructive energy, whilst retaining control, spinners seem the daddy. Cheap, light components delivering huge amounts of KE in a very short period of time...

[FourWheelDrift]

ajprice said:

I don't know if Typhoon is in the new series, but if it or anything like it is in there, that arena had better be very very bombproof.

Says on here they are not in the new series - http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Typhoon_2

[FourWheelDrift]

Are Mentorn still producing it? They seem to be meddling interfering and cheating going by this - http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Storm_2/Controvers... and other issues.

[slipstream 1985]

What a fight series 7 2vs 3 house robots!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4p_acSIT8

[ajprice]

So while we are waiting for the Robot Wars series to start, BattleBots is starting up again in the USA. First up is a qualifier episode with 12 bots fighting for for the last 4 places of 48. When this thread started was wondering what could happen in RW with new tech, well here you go - drones, cluster bots, interesting use of flame weapons, and a mighty spinner.

https://youtu.be/WjACCbazu4I

[ajprice]

A few bits of info here on Robot Wars http://www.wired.co.uk/article/new-robot-wars-2016...

The robot weight limit is up to 125kg from 100kg
No more Sgt Bash, Mr Psycho, Cassius Chrome, Growler or Refbot.
Shunt, Matilda, Dead Metal and Sir Killalot are rebuilt and much bigger (Shunt weighs 300kg, Killalot is 3/4 tonne, about the same as Mr Psycho)
A lot of robots, and house robots, are using a toughened steel material called hardox (?).

Edited by ajprice on Saturday 11th June 12:13

[ajprice]

So I watched the first one of then new Battlebots series (about 1 hour 20 mins, 2 hours in US with adverts). It was good, a few interesting designs, impressive weapons, I won't say who won what...




There were a few faces from Robot Wars - Photon Storm has some of the Storm and Tornado guys from RW, Beta is a version of the KillaHertz/MegaHertz hammer bot, the guy who had Mortis in early RW was there with a kind of Refbot shaped part animatronic bot, he had metal frames on his arms, the robots arms copied his movement they were against Warhead with the Razer guys.

Warhead has a switchable weapon now, the spinner as before or a dinosaur head shaped jaw with a fire weapon in it (many fire breathing dragon comments from the commentators and presenters). Not sure how strong the jaw is yet, but it doesn't look as strong as Razer's weapon.




As for Robot Wars, it is coming soon (not sure when but should be sometime in July or August), there are trailers about, and the new house robots have been shown. http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-06-23/this-is-...

[FourWheelDrift]

ABC have 3 of the battles on their youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/ABCNetwork/videos

Flying drone attack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkB2X3lbnGc

[Hosenbugler]

This is good news. Looking forward to the series. Will give me a reason to watch the beeb

[FourWheelDrift]

Battlebots 2016, meet the robots including Warhead and the humanoid robot.

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf9GrRkVm5k
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUe4AujjBVo

Episode 1 in full - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFO3uDIFshY <-- says 2015 but it is episode 1 of this years series 2.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Wednesday 29th June 16:30