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Title: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: jitspoe on November 12, 2007, 03:32:16 AM: Got any good clips?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S-uaBnWCliU - they beat up the house robots and the ref falls in the pit, haha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEvV-BpXmQ&NR=1 - razer is crazy - can ever crush house robots.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LLUTvHE-dRU - hypno-disc can tear stuff up, too.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cWtbjmoaaGE - gravity flips the house robots

I'd love to compete in something like that.
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: y00tz on November 12, 2007, 09:03:01 AM: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1j3ClHCCM-s

I remember a few years ago I was real interested in building a battlebot, but at the time the price of all the servos* and other hardware would have been far more than I could afford. If I had the time I'd love to put one of these together.

*edited - y00tzism
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: jitspoe on November 12, 2007, 01:14:22 PM: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2YKnrj01Ra8 - warhead is such a cool looking robot. I love the tail.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wodfZLY_NIY - razer vs tornado - quite a fight. Too bad the video quality sucks.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6NNY1_MoAjw - and that's what happens when tornado doesn't have its protective cage.

Edit: Er... why did this get deleted?
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: Eiii on November 13, 2007, 01:15:42 AM: Building a 'bot only out of servos would be pretty darn tough.

FIRST/MATE ftw. :D

EDIT: Okay, more content. What turns me off about those competitions is just the fact that it seems to me that a lot of the bots are more flashy than they are functional; hell, I'd bet a simple robot with all it's allowed weight being put into speed, power, and armor could win without any weaponry at all.

FIRST has lot of aggression with the more recent games, without all the robot-destroying. Unfortunately, it's near-impossible to organize teams efficiently, so each match seems to come down to whether or not each team has a bot to fill each role, or if they can do their jobs really, really well.
Hell, one year we just built a robot that could move and deploy itself as a ramp. Not a lot for us to do for the first few minutes of a match, but we won about three quarters of our matches because we were able to do our ramp thing. (That makes no sense if you don't know the game.)

Now I'm all off-topic. Anyway, robotics competitions are hard to do well. Solo and non-popularized is the way to go.
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: jitspoe on November 13, 2007, 03:35:12 PM: Quote from: Eiii on November 13, 2007, 01:15:42 AM
hell, I'd bet a simple robot with all it's allowed weight being put into speed, power, and armor could win without any weaponry at all.
Probably not against the likes of razer. That thing chews through just about anything.
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: y00tz on November 15, 2007, 10:31:31 PM: Heh, I wish I knew about FIRST when I was in high school. We did do something for our CS/Tech class, in which we built 'battle bots' unforunately due to some loose rules, the team that won ended up being a swastika shaped spinning robot :P
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: jitspoe on November 19, 2007, 05:59:47 PM: Quote from: y00tz on November 15, 2007, 10:31:31 PM
Heh, I wish I knew about FIRST when I was in high school. We did do something for our CS/Tech class, in which we built 'battle bots' unforunately due to some loose rules, the team that won ended up being a swastika shaped spinning robot :P
Too bad you weren't prepared with a spinning star of david to counter it.

On a serious note, I'd be curious to see how a battle between two good spinners would turn out.
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: y00tz on October 26, 2008, 12:49:03 PM: RoboGames '08 stuff:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_8dcM2qm_Ao
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=OPDASoWCufs
Non-battle stuff:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XTlznF1MadM
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: ViciouZ on October 26, 2008, 03:54:36 PM: I think you're forgetting the best ever robot, diotoir...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9P-AGXtbQU
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: Dukky on October 27, 2008, 04:02:00 AM: Diotor was awesome. I used to absolutely love Robot Wars, got so many episodes on tape.

My favourite were Onslaught, Behemoth, Razer (of course) Hypnodisc, Panic Attack and Chaos 2 (Obviously). I remember being really sad when Firestorm II beat Panic Attack. Stupid flipper.

Anybody remember the episode when Razer took out Sgt Bash, single handedly. That was cool. Oh, and when Hypnodisc (Needs verification) broke one of Matilda's tusks.

Awesomeness

On another note, did/does anybody watched/watch Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars? Probably one of my favourite TV shows ever. Proper Job
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: KnacK on October 27, 2008, 10:53:14 AM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMuvAIzjJmU&feature=related Biohazard vs Vlad old schooling it.
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: jitspoe on October 27, 2008, 11:32:54 AM: Quote from: KnacK on October 27, 2008, 10:53:14 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMuvAIzjJmU&feature=related Biohazard vs Vlad old schooling it.

"We're sorry, this video is no longer available."

:(
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: Laged on October 27, 2008, 11:44:13 AM: Quote from: jitspoe on October 27, 2008, 11:32:54 AM
"We're sorry, this video is no longer available."

:(

Weird, I can see it..
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: y00tz on October 27, 2008, 06:01:49 PM: Quote from: jitspoe on October 27, 2008, 11:32:54 AM
"We're sorry, this video is no longer available."

:(

Same
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: KnacK on October 27, 2008, 10:57:05 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMuvAIzjJmU try this link
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: y00tz on October 27, 2008, 11:07:08 PM: As the video is about to play it just says "We're sorry, this video is no longer available"

Ed.: Is this the same video? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=WXT8-oAG8NM&feature=related
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: KnacK on October 28, 2008, 06:14:33 AM: Yes but it just isn't the same.....

All of those robot wars/battlebots were shot on Angel Island in San Francisco at an old military base.
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: delrio on October 28, 2008, 10:05:40 AM: Does anyone remember which bot it was in Robot Wars that dumped Sir Killalot into the pit?
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
Post by: KnacK on October 28, 2008, 10:08:25 AM: Iremember that episode.

That bot took on 2 of the house robots after eliminating his competition.
Title: Re: Robot Wars / Battle Bots
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