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JonRB said:
Sway said:
Mortis, that's the jobbie!
Feck me, £100k spend?!!!!
A lot of that was some very expensive motors or something like that anyway, which they were developing for their PHd work and was probably a theoretical cost rather than a real one. I think it was just willy-waving really. Feck me, £100k spend?!!!!
I very much doubt that amount of real actual cold hard cash was spent.
I can see it being £100k if they added in labour costs. One of the team was a lecturer at Cambridge Uni, can't remember the surname but his first name was Arthur.
One of the Razor boys (not sure which one) gave up his full time job to develop the robot full time later on I heard. They won £100k for winning the world championship on RW: Extreme so you could see why. If you want to see a impressive machine check out their American battlebot entry warhead.
Battlebots is coming back in the US. Lots of old Robot Wars teams involved - the Razer boys with a new version of Warhead, the Terrorhurtz team with a new axe bot and others. Apparently people applied with their proposed design and CV's then successful entrants got $10k towards the build costs from ABC. It looks like it's going to be great.
Pits walk around from Tested on youtube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnACo3zgI5k
Pits walk around from Tested on youtube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnACo3zgI5k
hairykrishna said:
Battlebots is coming back in the US. Lots of old Robot Wars teams involved - the Razer boys with a new version of Warhead, the Terrorhurtz team with a new axe bot and others. Apparently people applied with their proposed design and CV's then successful entrants got $10k towards the build costs from ABC. It looks like it's going to be great.
Pits walk around from Tested on youtube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnACo3zgI5k
Starts on Sunday on ABC in America. What are the chances of this being available to watch here online?Pits walk around from Tested on youtube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnACo3zgI5k
Warhead's Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/WarheadRobot
Search YouTube for 'Battlebots 2015', there is the full episode 1 (about 40 minutes, so it was probably an hour with US adverts), and 4 fights as separate videos. There's some intro stuff to the show too.
All posted to YouTube by TheYuGiTom
All posted to YouTube by TheYuGiTom
Edited by ajprice on Wednesday 24th June 09:55
I've been watching a couple of clips of old Robot Wars.
I don't remember Jeremy Clarkson presenting it?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7USYfgvIkU
I do remmeber Philippa Forrester though...
I don't remember Jeremy Clarkson presenting it?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7USYfgvIkU
I do remmeber Philippa Forrester though...
So I've just caught up on the semis and final, and into spoiler land we go, just in case.
There were some really good fights (I watched the 'fights only' videos on YouTube), especially when spinners are involved, the ones with hydraulic arms similar to Razer don't seem to have the same power in the arm to do damage. As for the final, I am so so glad that the Tombstone robot didn't win, the driver was a Grade A cocky arse, he had it coming. Before the final I thought anything against Tombstone would get slaughtered, I'm glad I was wrong, good driving won the day.
There were some really good fights (I watched the 'fights only' videos on YouTube), especially when spinners are involved, the ones with hydraulic arms similar to Razer don't seem to have the same power in the arm to do damage. As for the final, I am so so glad that the Tombstone robot didn't win, the driver was a Grade A cocky arse, he had it coming. Before the final I thought anything against Tombstone would get slaughtered, I'm glad I was wrong, good driving won the day.
Edited by ajprice on Saturday 1st August 10:26
yeah, agree with you on Tombstone
thing with those heavy spinners is that Newtons 3rd law applies, so a fair amount of force is re-directed back
best bots were those who adapated their bot to to their next opponent
struck me that the bots with large spinners (the vertical ones) had problems with the strong gyroscopic forces, was quite noticable that when they turned sharply they would almost topple over !
watched the 1st ep on youtube, but the vid quality was poor, so looked around .....
thing with those heavy spinners is that Newtons 3rd law applies, so a fair amount of force is re-directed back
best bots were those who adapated their bot to to their next opponent
struck me that the bots with large spinners (the vertical ones) had problems with the strong gyroscopic forces, was quite noticable that when they turned sharply they would almost topple over !
watched the 1st ep on youtube, but the vid quality was poor, so looked around .....
ajprice said:
So I've just caught up on the semis and final, and into spoiler land we go, just in case.
There were some really good fights (I watched the 'fights only' videos on YouTube), especially when spinners are involved, the ones with hydraulic arms similar to Razer don't seem to have the same power in the arm to do damage. As for the final, I am so so glad that the Tombstone robot didn't win, the driver was a Grade A cocky arse, he had it coming. Before the final I thought anything against Tombstone would get slaughtered, I'm glad I was wrong, good driving won the day.
It's well documented that Ray the creator of Tombstone is one of the most popular and gracious guys in the sport.There were some really good fights (I watched the 'fights only' videos on YouTube), especially when spinners are involved, the ones with hydraulic arms similar to Razer don't seem to have the same power in the arm to do damage. As for the final, I am so so glad that the Tombstone robot didn't win, the driver was a Grade A cocky arse, he had it coming. Before the final I thought anything against Tombstone would get slaughtered, I'm glad I was wrong, good driving won the day.
Edited by ajprice on Saturday 1st August 10:26
The bits for the camera were exactly that... made to make it more interesting on TV!
They used "one more" as if he was taunting his opponents, when in reality he was checking if they wanted to take another hit for the TV cameras.
He's a great sport, and his robot is a beast.
I was disappointed with who won.
Edited by joefraser on Saturday 1st August 12:50
joefraser said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
I was a big fan of Hypnodisc. That thing could take out an aircraft carrier.
If you liked that then check the battle bots since the reboot, a couple of the spinners make hypno look tame as amazing as it was back then!
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFe9tUHFkcoTombstone vs Witch Doctor at 2:35
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