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- 게시일 2024. 04. 26.
- Credits for footage in this documentary:
Discovery
Jamison Go
Norwalk Havoc Robot League
BattleBots
Horizon - BattleBot
Craig Danby
pontifier
SpaceSlam Robotics
Team Panic
Seems Reasonable Robotics
Witch Doctor
Skorpios - BattleBot
Lucky - BattleBot
BBC
Blooper Sphoof
ABC
Joe Brown
Tomco Designs
davidrobert2007
ThomFireSide
Team Ironclads
Credit for music in this documentary:
No Spirit - Between Worlds
amies x cxlt - Nocturne
Hoogway - Equation of Time
Chau Sara - Lightsaber Bar
Even in the depths of the deadliest robot fighting competition on Earth, there are designs that were simply too powerful or crazy to ever appear on our screens. This documentary details 10 such machines and their histories.
Dedicated to everyone who has supported this channel over the past half decade.
00:00 Intro
00:45 Horizon250
02:16 Broadside
03:43 ACME Pilot Drill
06:27 Black Scorpion
08:35 Cone Army
09:54 WhamMow
11:25 Two-Headed Death Flamingo
12:52 Honest Abe
14:24 Warthog
15:50 ZAP
17:25 Outro - 과학기술
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This has become the second video on this channel to surpass 1M views, but the response to this video has been my favourite so far. It’s great to see everyone sharing their ideas in the comments
Ye man
good job !
ACME is, or at least was, a real company. They did make things like anvils and something else i cant remember.
Thanks for reminding me about this show, I used to watch it a lot but haven't had cable in years!
On the ACME drill bot, the guys name is Pontifier and he is pretty unhinged. There's some good backstory on r/battlebots under the "The Battlebots 2018 Info Thread".
Nothing cooler than getting rejected by Battlebots for being "too dangerous!"
Oh yeah
Given time it will probably be acceptable one day. Maximum carnage draws maximum ratings
which one was that
@@megadefaultgaming9187 Honest abe
@@megadefaultgaming9187The Myth busters.
I for one would love to see tombstone fight 37 traffic cones.
Imagine a bowling ball getting a strike. That's what would happen.
Oh dang! I never expected to see my design on here! Broadside was also rejected for the 2022 season - we didn't complete the redesign in time, but we're hopeful for the 2023 season!
Godspeed
Hi, thank you for watching! There was a big list of robots to choose from and Broadside caught my eye straight away. Best of luck for 2023
Hopefully you get in! I’d love to see it in the arena- I’d recommend add a small drum instead of an axe at the back, might improve your chances because the damage an axe especially as a secondary can do has been greatly faltering off! A small drum seen on bots like Razorback sometimes could be something to persuade
It's a very cool design. Would love to see it at BB. Did you get any feedback?
@@huntzzio I love this idea! The issue we ran into with this is that the cannon mechanism itself is 850mm long (we are looking to make it smaller, but the slugs are 63.5x125), so we're trying to figure out what we can do
a anime about battle bots would be so fucking cool, you could include so many theorical designs and strech the possibilities of what you can do here in the real world a little
When I was a kid I thought up a spike hammer design that would swing and puncture armor and then had a hole in the spike that it would fire a flame thrower out of. I was always disappointed in the use of flame weapons because they only seemed to be for show and I never saw one used to cause actual damage. Injecting some flammable gel and causing a spark could actually disable a robot.
Chemicals not allowed
The internal firespike tip is legit, but the flammable gel or liquid is not. It's not a bad idea though if you can hold the spike in place and use butane/propane.
Yep ive had the same idea for forever.
Neat idea, but I'd have to imagine even the tiny area required to allow for a flame would drastically increase the force needed to puncture any armor, and would possibly easily be damaged in a hit, potentially closing it off. Also without a pilot light outside the spike, you'd probably end up just shooting out gas. I don't think you could get a flame to actually propogate outside a nozzle that small.
Again, neat idea, htough. It'd be fun to mockup and try.
@@isgonrain what about a needled design? Just far larger. call it the wasp and you have a decent bot design. inject gas then spark it. giant fireball.
only counter would be to move.
or you could place it in a sort of drill hole cutter thing. drill out the edges and inject gas. would be more consistent, but slower. you'd want a flywheel for the drill for the required force. if the flywheel was heavy enough, it could likely provide enough force to keep the drill gripped. once you have a hole, pump your butane in and watch the fireball. have like a ignition chamber on the arm or wherever, and you now have a gimmicky but fun to watch robot.
The sad reality I always understood about things like BattleBots is that their strategies closely resembled nature in hyperdrive: you start out with countless designs that are truly innovative and interesting... only to have them actually compete, and like 95% of them are weeded out in relatively short order, so that a couple years later you really only get slight iterations on maybe 4-5 basic archetypes.
It's not about what's 'cool', it's about what statistically wins the most matches.
The meta game encroaches on everything leaving most of the joy on the the side sadly.
@@EvilFrosty2U Don't I know it. I play an online card game, Hearthstone, which is similar to Magic: The Gathering. I always want to play these unorthodox, niche decks in order to win by stupid ways that I think are cool... only to half the time get crushed by Turn 4-5 by some guy who took a deck off the internet that's just plain aggro and literally requires no thought to play.
It's an evolutionary system, and often there are only a few maximal states that evolution converges on.
Well I'd rather be a predictable winner than a cool loser
its also more abt their garbage trash rules lol
I think there should be a first day "Firstcomers" battle. All newcomers get one 3x1 battle to try and earn a spot in the regular show. This will allow new blood and even give an additional TV episode.
Good luck finding enough properly-funded participants
Look up the Destructathon live show in Vegas. They invite new designers to try out their designs in a real arena setting!
Great idea! I thought they should have an extra open category, but quickly realized that this just would probably be too expensive.
We need more projectile weapons in battle bots
I was actually on one of the backup teams for the 2016 season, the OVER EASY robot. A lot of the issues that arise for builders these days are the absurd contracts we have to sign before even knowing if we will actually be part of the show. also would love to say Ray Billings is one of the nicest guys I have ever encountered, his passion for the sport is unrivaled, not the bad guy they make him in the show.
Ah that’s interesting I haven’t heard of that before - what is it about the contracts that teams dislike?
@@DoktorGlib no point giving up
Good luck mate
watching his robot Tombstone break things into little pieces was always extremely enjoyable
@@DoktorGlib I don't know if you'd seen on Ray's channel, but he had a pretty bad hand injury that prevented him from competing in the 2022 season. I think he's gonna end up being in the 2023 season, though, so I'm excited to see what he's got in store for his return!
@@hex1044 If I had to guess merch/ branding deals, no cussing, no provocative/ political clothing, no smack talking, filming wavers, etc. Basically all the stuff that takes the fun out competitions.
The scorpion "tail" looks like a great design, but it does not appear to have the mass needed to do significant damage.
Am I wrong in thinking that having 2 spikes means less penetration power, too? I would think 1 single heavy spike would be more effective, and perhaps more evocative.
@@camerongulley3791 those kind of spikes wouldn't be for true penetration, but to just slightly bite into the armor of the other robot to help it "stick" to it at the moment of impact when it might otherwise glance off, which would help it transfer more of its kinetic energy into the target.
Idk if the mechanism of the tail would be able to get that small mass up to a high enough speed to do sufficient damage, but a small number of short dull points like those were a common design feature of medieval maces and warhammers to help them more efficiently transfer their impact into the curved surfaces of plate armor on a moving opponent rather than getting deflected off. (The image on Wikipedia's page for "lucerne hammer" has a rather pronounced 4 pointed version on the hammer side of it if you want a visual aid)
You're not technically wrong, but they only need to bite/dent a tiny bit into the metal (even 1mm would be plenty) to get a grip on it and there being 2 means that if it hits on an angled surface it will start turning in towards the armor it's hitting rather than away from it because the force at the first moment of impact will produce a torque toward rather than away from the target.
They won't penetrate, but they're less spikes and more grip studs, so they're not meant to.
Well, KineticEnergy=Mass×Velocity²
Normally hammer bots are heavy because they are limited to a maximum of 180° and the faster you go through the arc the less time you have to put energy into the weapon so you quickly hit diminishing returns by trying to increase velocity.
That said, if they really do have a 600° arc they have more time and distance to apply energy in AND there's some whip-like physics going on where each segment decelerates by transferring its velocity to the next segment all the way to the striking head then _maybe_ it could hit hard enough to do damage.
On paper at least, it would be somewhere between a spinner bot and a hammer bot in that it would hit higher kinetic energies like a spinner bot because of being able have more of a rotation arc to get up to speed but be able to hit angles that spinners can't as they're usually stuck to attacking the stronger sides, corners, and edges rather than the top.
In principle there's nothing stopping a small mass from totally messing up a bot IF they can get it going fast enough.
Engineering that "if" without just making a gun or something comparably dangerous to the spectators is the hard part. Hypothetically possible, but whether they can is an entirely different matter that I have no answer for.
I would consider making the tail more of a "pushing" weapon kind of along the lines of a bot like Bronco where it's power lies nt launching other bots. I don't think piercing into another bot would be good as it could easily get stuck. Something with a gas-pressurized ram or the like.
Would also lack the leverage to apply significant force upon impact.
The Zap fight footage got a good laugh out of me, it was so sudden and unexpected.
Fun fact: ACME is an actual company that mostly supplies stuff to construction crews, like road cones, and typically have a product for almost any need.
The LoonyTunes joke is that they make literally everything.
Ah I did not know that they were real
If I remember correctly, it stands for American Construction and Manufacturing Equipment
@@johnadams4427 It does not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Corporation
That confused me as a kid.
There was an Acme supermarket in my home town in New Jersey. They sold groceries, including their own generic brands, so when I saw Wile E. Coyote buying explosives and giant slingshots from them, I was very confused!
I was at a live filming of BattleBots in Vegas a couple of weeks ago. They introduced a new "walking" category that will come next year. They demonstrated a 75 pound walking spider robot that didn't have any weapons. It was amazing to behold. You seem to be more connected to the community than I am and I would love to see a video about the designs of these walking battlebots.
They had the 2022 chomp as a walker bot, last I as aware???
@@MysteryOfTheShockwave I found a Behind the scenes video of it here on youtube. This is what I saw: krplus.net/bidio/Y8uaY3J0nqKbnZw
@@chrisfleitas615 Huh! Neat! Thanks for sharing!
I think the reason why Zap got rejected is because of the amount of damage to the wall/ safety glass it could cause, and a 1 in a million shot with a flipper bot when it does it's launch could possibly be enough to send it flying and potentially out of the arena.
The fact the arena got shattered before makes sense with that reasoning
You could make broadside a melee slaughter machine by making him lock other robots and then shoot them with 250mph slugs.
11 months later... after watched the hacksmiths lose, kinda respect those fighters can build a function robots for the fights
There needs to be a tournament with experimental robots each versus a more classic (not experimental) robot, aired on Science Channek or somethjg
Also great video! I thoroughly enjoyed the whole 18 minutes of this
A fun challenge would be a known tried and tested robot design vs a unknown test robot that is designed to counter that specific design
An edited comment, yet still has bad typos in it.
I think a league made of purely of rejected for being to experimental would be better. Imagine scorpion vs a swarm of traffic cones
Horizon finally made it to Battlebots. It was terrible.
I’d imagine the scorpion one would be intended to whip a hammer at the opponent.
Extra points for not letting the music get in the way of what was being said. All in all, a fine video.
Thank you very much!
That Black Scorpion design is wild! I have no idea about the effectiveness but you are right when you talked about there being a huge lack of variety in Battle Bots. I would love to see what it could do. Plus it's so badass-looking!
So glad your back I missed the videos ❤❤❤🎉
I love this guy. No over the top intro or music. It feels like you are talking to him about Battlebots.
I'd make a Blue Shell inspired spinning robot with heavy spikes and omni wheels.
Would love to see a combination of Horizon 250’s spinner design, with Zap’s movement. The amount of inertia you could pack with 3 sources of rotation could be the hardest hitting bot in battle bots history
I was thinking the same
I don't see Zap in this season, but Horizon is in the comp this bout! I don't wanna spoil the first battle, though lol
True but that would have to be one crazy sturdy bot to not instantly self destruct once it hits something, especially the arena walls or floor or if it somehow got flipped, would be absolute choas lol. Still would love to see it :D
I think the core issue of using multiple smaller bots is the power scaling. Like you don't have the option of balancing offensive and defensive capabilities. You get hit and you get knocked out without doing much damage by a spinner etc. You need to have the offensive capabilities to show off to the crowd and TV but also able to survive. Its also more expensive as basically everything you need for internals is multiplied by the amount of multi-bots
Bring back Blendo!
When describing a bot around 16:18 or so... I thought you said "It Uses Melty Brain Technology" and all I could think was... I bet! LOL
Truly enthralling! The return of the legenddd
I’d love to see a Black Scorpion light weight!
To make it more unique, what if the tails spin? Like a drill?
Idk why but at Horizon250 I thought the big spinner would spin at the same speed as the little spinners and wondered how the f that would work, because the force of the big spinnes would negate the little spinners spinning in the opposite direction.
Zap is really clever design.
The talk about multibots and their effectiveness reminded me of one I saw in Robot Wars in my youth which was called Gemeni and was a multibot flipper that entered the arena as a singular bot.
still active
Good luck broadside.
All these were very interesting ideas.
Considering they are a televised event more bots that are “new” should definitely have a chance as the ones that compete do.
Great vid
Small nuke rockets.
I've always wondered if you could enter a robot that was literally a solid 250lb ball bearing with a small motor inside to roll it around.
I want to see how all those spinners handle it.
The rules say you have to have an independently powered weapon, so just ramming into things with a metal hamster ball doesn't count. (Also, not sure you could get enough speed out of an internal drive to actually do damage.)
@@benjaminlee985 What if you were able to include some kind of piston onto the sphere that would jolt out and launch the bot itself into the air? With the goal of landing on your opponent?
Granted, I wouldn’t know how you’d even try to aim that. You’d have to have some kind of tell that’d let you know when the piston was below the bot.
@@RekRakJat Or just color the one patch with an arrow pointing where it’ll shoot
I had the same thought, I bet the deflection damage that would be self inflicted by sending the other robot bouncing would be severe.
@@benjaminlee985 It would purely be a defense bot with a similar idea to "Duck!". It wouldn't be for causing damage but opponents breaking themselves against it.
I would circumvent that weapon rule with an ant/beetle weight minibot or using the weapon from one and simply glue, tack or cellotape it on to the balls surface.
Zap’s movement is really neat!
It looks like superspeed in movies and tv. Really cool looking!
Thanks for the insight
the cone army thing could be any audience participation thing, just hand out controllers to willing volunteers and make the objective to push the opponent or each other into pits or other hazards
They should have a boss mode, where many little bots team up to fight a “boss” bot!
They used to do back in the day
Depth Charge did that against a bunch of smaller bots, but Depth Charge was also a barely controllable safety hazard.
I don't know if it waa this show, but there was one that had a boss fight. It looked like a fat trex kind of thing.
@@ScorpionXXXVIIthat would be the corner robots from robot wars, the uk version of the show. These bots are so powerful that generally the best idea is to avoid entering the corner so that you don’t sustain damage, however there have been instances of them being taken out, such as by Apollo, a flipper which was the most dominant bot that I had personally ever seen, in its debut season beating cobalt in the finals, which is essentially just tombstone except built specially for that show.
@th4tdwayneee I think that's the episode I saw, where the bot beat the boss bot. Good stuff.
The cone army is like a goddam SCP
Zap sounds absolutely hilarious
The return
I need 3 Foxtrots in a trenchcoat stat
Thx!😊
ACME = A Company that Makes Everything
I want to see an ultra heavy class. With like miniguns, hydra-70 rockets, 40mm HEDP and stuff like that. People would pay kickass money for stuff like that.
I think that's just called the US army. In battlebots they tend to try for less civilian casualties
Perhaps double weight limit. It would certainly create a new form of fighting on battlebots.
Just watch the news
Great video. I’ve been an engineer/ toolmaker for 50 years. I also had my own CNC machine shop I’ve sold to my sons. They have Haas mills and use Solid Works just like on the show. My point is that this show has advanced so far from the beginning. While you do require many skills to build one of these to seriously compete look at what price. Unless you have huge sponsors and a bunch of computer geeks , mechanical genius’s and access to expensive CNC equipment it’s not too realistic these days. I’ve even sketched out designs I think could compete but then again there are ones I never thought had a chance and yet did good. I never thought Tantrum would take the nut last year. Comes down to a bit of luck as well as driving skills. Just like in football …..on any given Sunday. Now what I’d REALLY like to see is put a limit on $$$$$. Get the creativity going on what can be done on a budget. I believe Jackpot was a much less expensive bot. I applaud them. Rusty was a crowd pleaser even though he didn’t have what it takes. I understand what the producers look for. I was involved in Discovery Channels Biker Build offs several times. Don’t get me wrong it’s all great stuff but I’d love to see BUDGET BOTS!
I'm with you Lee. There is so much ingenuity out there. Is there not room for a televised junior league much like college ball is to professional leagues?
What would the budget be per event you reckon?
@@xgtwb6473 well the more I watch and see just how much machining is going into these things you have to wonder at what cost. My opinion this has now become like a reality show and drama . Teams are getting really big. Everyone has a theme and goes crazy with outfits and what not. It’s simply evolved so much. Not saying it’s a bad thing but I still like the more on a budget builds . Showcase true engineering. But it’s evolution I guess because it is certainly far and away off from what it started. I really enjoy critiquing the bots . I can see where problems are. Lol maybe I should become a consultant. Example. Blip. I love Arron Hill and think he’s brilliant but the last battle I watched he couldn’t get under enough to flip his opponent. A simple design change can fix that. Look at Hydra , that low long flipper can get under anything. All still comes down to driving skill. Just like in football. On any given Sunday any team could beat any team. All in all it’s a blast. Cut the budget in half and see just how creative it could become. BUDGET BOTS lol.
So true! Yes, let's focus on ideas and not on $%&!ing money.
Yess Black Scorpion muss show up!!
Black scorpion is innovative and looks great! I would love to see it as a light weight.
The flamingo one doesn't take itself too seriously with its design, despite all the weapons of course. I can imagine Battlebots thought that wouldn't fit in their show, while I've seen similar silly concepts in Robot Wars, especially early on.
Black scorpion would benefit from dual “claw” spinners out front
Yeah, a setup like Shredder or Double Trouble from _Robot Wars_ (but on a bigger, more modern scale) could work well!
Neodymium magnetics would be wild.
Welcome back to the world of the living friend good to see you back
I'd love to see a no holds barred no live audience allowed within a half mile version of battle bots. Allow EVERYTHING. Actual firearms, chemicals, industrial machinery, arc welding.
I have really enjoyed your videos and how much you pit into it. Here is video idea you can do for the future that I would love to see. You could do a video every Battlebot put into the competion and tell everything about it. It's weaknesses, what rules it thrived on that may not be around today, its wins, and ranking it overall as how good it would be from its modern competion. I would love to see its different forms in battle and which versions were way bad or very good with no driving issues. This could be a series to look at all these bots until none are left to rank every Battlebot ever on the show and many versions that were used throughout the years and tools. Thanks again for your hard work and creativity on these Battlebot videos. Hope you enjoy this idea, I am not a big robot tech person, so mind any tech grammar that may sound wrong lol.
Great video, thanks
They should some sort of auditioning, where literally every safe bot is accepted and they're pited against each other randomly... winner gets to the next round
Interesting
Indeed.
I honestly want to know more about the ACME story. Guy got approved, and then security on the site didn't like him and, while holding a valid contract, was somehow prevented from being on the show?
I think the security who the ACME team argued with must have been working for Boeing, who were also letting BattleBots use their land. If they banned the ACME guy from their property, but BattleBots still allowed him in, they would have grounds to kick BattleBots out. Hence he wasn’t allowed to compete sadly.
The thing I don’t understand is why they thought he would’ve been trespassing in the first place if he was clearly a competitor on the show.
The thing I wonder is, how does an ordinary guard, clearly in the wrong, have the power to override a lawful contract.
There's LAWS about interfearing in another persons contract.
@@hex1044 I could have read it wrong but some parts of the screenshot suggested havibg their van parked overnight. That could be what caused that whole thing.
@@ICountFrom0 And any well-written contract has break clauses, particularly for use of property.
And they were willing to kick out the entire show, because one person EXISTED?
That can't possibly be the entire story.
Cone army sounds like something I'd like to see once.
i had no clue battlebots was back!
Everyone trying to be innovative focus in new weapons but people forget to focus on mobility. I mean a regular vertical spinner that can move around circling the opponent with its weapon always aimed at the other and maybe a button with a pre programed command that makes the robot charge when you have its back in the line of sight. And for full body spinners, a shield in one side and a spinner in the other, so that you charge with the shield and push it to the wall before its weapon catch speed, then another pre programed command that makes the robot move backward, rotate 180 degrees so that you can charge again with the weapon
The thing I want to see is a projectile robot that is used by pinning a robot against a wall and have a super sharp armor piercing type slug shot down through the top of the bot. There won't be as much to go wrong since you shoot down into the floor.
Edit: most tops of bots are flat as well so there wouldn't be much deflecting from the bots armo
Like cold blooded executions we all love and don't see enough on tv
I don't think the energy limits on projectiles will ever permit them to be effective
If I somehow managed to find myself in charge of a BattleBot design team, it would have a spinner that encircled the entire robot as the main weapon, probably with some secondary weapons mounted at specific points behind the spinner. The entire robot would also be vertically symmetrical, making it far more resilient against getting flipped.
Just a casual observer, what I observed is that there are 2 types of design. One type is just to show off, the other is to win! The show offs are usually, tall clumsy and with fancy shapes. The winners are mostly spinners with few flippers, relatively simple/functional design. They win because they can deliver a lot of energy quickly and frequently. In this review, the drill and the scorpion are obvious show offs, like they say it’s like taking a knife to a machine gun fight.
that horizon bot would be a nightmare to drive. but i think they should allow more innovative designs into the arena. keep this sport evolving. dont let it stagnate
I'd love to see an automatic tracking function coupled with a projectile launcher for crossbow bolts. Remote control aiming from the arena edge isn't easy. Adding an automated process to it would help tremendously. It doesn't even need to aim per say. Rather, it could be a system that the driver arms and the robot automatically fires at opponents as they pass. Basically, a "tripwire" of sorts.
Wonder how hard it would be to train AI on video to then auto shoot projectiles. Probably rules against it though
Black scorpion you gotta do this its cool af
5:26 You're renting space from a defense contractor? That's a very bad idea.
Zap reminds me of a robot I dreamed up as a kid. It's the name only, though, since my "design" (read as: doodles) used a large capacitor as it's weapon. The idea was that it would charge up that capacitor from a separate battery and use a metal prong on the front to stab another bot and electrocute it, hopefully frying the electronics inside, while thick rubber insulation protects it from harming itself. No way in hell would it ever get approved, large capacitors are _dangerous_ at the best of times, even if whatever they are in is turned off. Though I can imagine the frantic dance to avoid that poke of death and high likelyhood of smoke, fire and small electrical explosions would be fun as hell to watch.
I actually want to see a battle bot that uses an electric discharge as an attack Or even just high pressure water jet cannon
No projectiles allowed sadly , that means no high pressure water jet cannons
@@ulforcemegamon3094 huh in the video there was a shooting bot...
@@ulforcemegamon3094 Projectiles are allowed, but heavily regulated.
Is the tip of the black scorpion drills cuz I don't see how it could do any damage
The man himself is back
I want to see a league with all of the most dangerous bots and they are controlled remotely from hundreds of meters away. That would be BADASS
my favorite battle bot will always be the one from i think the first season when the concept hit the mainstream. It was just a metal box with a giant 12 pound hammer. simple, deceptively effective
That sounds like Deadblow, the 'bot designed by the late Grant Imahara.
Sometimes all ye need is a sledgehammer to ruin someone's day.
Problem is tombstone's spinner weighs 75 lbs, and spins way faster than a sledgehammer can move. With the current rule set nothing else can compete
teh black scorpion is the one id really like to see. i totally get what he is after, and if it works it would be amazing.
I always felt that the restrictions are too much. They stifle any real advancements.
I want to see Two-headed Death Flamingo so badly lol, that's such a brilliant theme ^-^
Destruct-a-thon has become the new gateway for experimental bots. They have no weight limit, and as long as it fits in the square and doesn't break the arena its okay.
The reason a couple of these also didn't get in is because very similar designs already exist.
Broadside is in essence Double Jeopardy.
Honest Abe is like Captain Shrederator.
Battlebots wants both competitive robots but also robots that have a fanbase. Captain Shrederator will never win the giant nut, but it is really popular still. Also look how they treated Rusty and Dave Eaton. They immediately latched on and released a toy before he was just another bot that got beat at every turn.
And then there's Blendo. It punched through plexiglass and could've killed a judge
6:27 looks straight out of Command & Conquer
Brilliant video thx
Too much reliance on international players = not enough players when something shuts down international travel = dead season = potentially dead show.
Leagues would solve this. but I don't think they have the viewership.
I never thought of it that way, it’s a good point. I’m hoping this kind of rumoured live event where every entrant gets to fight actually materialises because it could kind of see the start of a league
I really wish a leagues was implemented, but you’re right, it doesn’t have the viewership to be like a sport in that essence
kinda bad how they reject cool bots. everything else ends up falling into the pillars of flipper, spinner, and a hammer+grabbers
I do think there could be a push for more variety
Lets go Black Scorpion !!!!
I think the projectiles are too risky with the limited ammo
I know the real reason they have the rule about remotely shutting down an autonomous bot (to not hurt a worker after a match) but I really like to imagine it's to prevent a robot takeover.
"Great match, Abe. Let's give you a break. I'll shut you dow-"
"I can't let you do that, Dave."
Time to shut you down HAL.
M3GAN is starting to overshadow HAL (I loved the dark comedy horror film); even in the trailer when told to switch off, M3GAN casually replies, "Are you sure...?" 😳
Man that last sentence still sends shivers down my spine. What an awesome film, and sorry @realbadger but I really don't think M3GAN will even be remembered in 50 years except by the most diehard sci-fi movie nerds, unlike Kubrick's masterwork.
Lmao
Go job!
NGL a refined Apex with omni wheels sounds awesome.
I'm kinda sad for ACME drill... its seemed like a concept that could dethrone the meta... but it got killed in the eggs for some weird suspicious coincidence... now battlebot are just boring to watch it stick down to the meta and don't try more dangerous/destructive weapon
It's A Company Making Everything = ACME
What was the screw driver bot
Horizon is accepted
When designing something like Broadside, use a captive bolt shooter.
I used to watch robot wars as a kid
I think some people are gonna bring in AI robots that can walk or something spider-like that can be athletic and outmaneuver other bots
Thanks for taking the time to make this video and include Mingo in - especially coming to see it fight :)
definitely come along to one of our Beetle events some time they're a bunch of fun and lots of cool bots to check out!
2HDF is such a fun robot, I remember everyone enjoyed it in the audience that day. Beetleweights are my next favourite weight class because it seems to be where lots of these concepts are born!
I wish Mingo was accepted 😭
about the cone thing. make the autonomous and...
how? path finding and all you do is update where the enemy is, or get them to figure that out
Liking and commenting to get this video bumped
it appears to be working!