Robot Wars is coming back
Discussion
They should make it like battlebots: 2 robots, no house robots, no pit, fight to the death. It's so boring watching the fight start and one of the robots running straight to the pit button.
Shunt is my favourite house robot but some of them inflict too much damage on the competitors. Matilda has had the flywheel since season 5, nothing new there with it.
Shunt is my favourite house robot but some of them inflict too much damage on the competitors. Matilda has had the flywheel since season 5, nothing new there with it.
Some of the weapons looked good but one hit and they ripped their own robot apart. All you need is to drive a robot made of some really thick heavy duty steel into it and let the other robot damage itself.
It also seems that everyone goes for wheel driven robots, why not tracks? I used to love that robot Mortis.
It also seems that everyone goes for wheel driven robots, why not tracks? I used to love that robot Mortis.
telecat said:
Took a few series to get Razer and HypnoDisc right. I haven't seen either of those teams in the new series and Razer despte being a light weight actually looked like it could do damage despite the bad driving in the last series. I wasn't impressed with their Battle bot effort mind.
Razer was in the first series, they drove themselves into the pit. But since one of the team was/is technical advisor to RW I got the impression they were only making up the numbers, having fun and not caring. I don't think Razer was properly prepared.Otispunkmeyer said:
Better robots this week. But they're just not robust enough.... they clearly haven't been given the time to get things done properly. Big spinners like you see on battle bots take absolute hammerings and they come right back for more. So robust.
Plenty of the spinners in Battlebots have issues as well. Tombstone was lucky to make it through its semi-final last year after it broke its bar in its fight with Witch Doctor but managed to upend its opponent which lacked a self righter. ICE Wave has also lost its drive motor for its blade on several occasions.I think the extra time allowed in the pits, plus much larger budgets masks the problems during the fights.
I actually like the approach that the format has taken as there is a sense of the need for survivability and repairability to be incorporated in the designs. I feel that this helps lower the barrier for entry - educationally, students should be encouraged to enter. Competitors can of course turn up with their Kmart sponsored £25k+ cnc marvels, but they'd better think of a way to fix it in a basic environment. Battlebots is also great but I think there's room for a slightly different approach for Robot Wars.
The top battlebots teams have a lot of spares. The Bronco team, for example, caused a bit of controversy last series by bringing along a complete spare robot. I think there's also a full machine shop on site and they often get days between their battles. The availability of ruggedised parts in the US designed for fighting robots is also better - it's a decent sized industry over there. Obviously you can order them to the UK but costs get silly fast.
I think the development time of spinners is completely different too. Tombstone, Minotaur, Son of Whyachi and others in battlebots are both robots that their teams have been running, in one form or another, for a decade. That's just not happened in the UK because the live circuit over here didn't have an arena that was safe for a heavyweight spinner.
I think the development time of spinners is completely different too. Tombstone, Minotaur, Son of Whyachi and others in battlebots are both robots that their teams have been running, in one form or another, for a decade. That's just not happened in the UK because the live circuit over here didn't have an arena that was safe for a heavyweight spinner.
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