In season 3 episode 3 when it’s gamma 9 vs 4 horseman vs double jepardy. How did you guys feel about 4 horseman winning? Personally I feel like gamma 9 should’ve won considering they took out double jepardy and 2 of 4 horseman’s bots. What’s ur opinion?

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Rise of the Robots continues coverage of the last season of Robotica as Alan & The Griz discuss Season 3 Episode 2. Check out the episode on the link below or on your podcatcher of choice.

https://audioboom.com/posts/8496589-rise-of-the-robots-robotica-season-3-episode-2

Pics from Robogames 2024

I've been searching for days on end, I can usually find the regular Battlebots season to watch online but I can't find this event. (Btw I'm from Australia so I can't access things like Discovery dot com)

A friend and I are building an ant class battle bot. Currently we're using one of these motors with a weapon made from aluminum plate. It works pretty well but when it makes contact with an object it nearly stops (to be expected with a motor this small).

I'm looking for recommendations for a high torque motor that can keep its momentum as it hits a target. The current setup may be the best option given the weight restrictions of ant class but any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!

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Posting for a family member, in case you want to start out building a Battlebot:

https://youtu.be/9JZAZnfszx4?si=iJdkyC_OcILb7yk0

UPDATE: Title is a bit off, think of this video as more of an experience trying to build a bot from scratch vs an “how to” video on building a bot, but that can be a future video as an idea! Thanks for all the comments, he really appreciates it👍🏻

Are there any robots that are able to hold back the power of their flippers? Whenever I've seen robots on their back and try to self-right with a flipper, the modern flippers are often too powerful and make the robot do multiple spins in the air, often landing on its back again. In the early days this didn't happen as much because flippers weren't so powerful to begin with. When they acted as a srimech it would generally just turn the robot straight back over.

I've seen this happen lots of times as flippers got more powerful. While I'm typing this, I've got a video of Ziggy doing multiple somersaults and unable to immediately self-right in Robogames. Is it not really possible to have a button assigned on the remote that will do a weaker flip calibrated just for self-righting?

Sorry if this has been asked already, but I can’t seem to find any info. When does season 9(?) of battlebots start filming? When will it air? I miss robot fighting time :(

I am currently designing a bot with a chainsaw, hammer, etc, but I don’t know about any limits on the sheer amount. I’ve read through the rule book multiple times and cannot find anything about it. Am I blind or just straight up dumb?

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Day 3 Sunday

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Day 1 Friday

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Bracket

https://events.robocore.net/robogames-2024/brackets/12

Results

https://events.robocore.net/robogames-2024/results

How well do you think Wrecks would have done if it had wheels?

After the controversy last year when one of Terrortops’s forks flew into the crowd and the unsafe conditions for the workers combined with this year’s incident where a piece of a bot hit one of the bot builders and the smoke from Terrortops leaking out of the box causing an evacuation, will the Robogames heavyweight event continue? Or at the very least they need to do some massive safety upgrades. It seems like they barely even tried to fix it at all and with the lack of a live stream they probably are losing money on this event. When something this significant happens 2 years in a row is it safe to continue, or is it not as bad as I’m making it seem?

My neighbor saw me with an RC truck in the road and told me about Robogames coming to San Jose. I figured I would take my young kids to go check it out. I grew up watching Battlebots and have an interest in RC. My family went on Sunday.

First, their entire website needs an overhaul. It looks like they're using a 2000 Geocities template. Either way, I was interested in the larger combat robots and the schedule showed them fighting from 1-8.

My family got there about 1:30, and paid the $120 entry for two adults and two kids under 6. We made our way towards the back main arena area as there wasn't much else to see. There was a QR code to scan that showed the brackets of who was fighting, but we did not know any of the names of the robots. You couldn't actually look at the larger bots up close as that area was closed off and required the $500 pit pass to see. So from a casual observer, the bracket system was useless unless the bots name was prominently displayed on the side. A venue layout change would be nice. Unless the large bot teams are too busy with repairs and don't want the distraction of people checking them out. But no casual observer is going to spend $500 for the pit pass. ($1000 for two adults?)

A huge improvement could be a simple announcer. Just someone announcing who was fighting, and who the winner was. A few fights looked like both bots were done. It seemed like once the larger bots were done fighting, the smaller ones started in the other arena, and the crowd rushed to the edge of the stands to see. Nothing really appeared to be on any sort of schedule to me.

Also, who put the American flag blocking the viewing area from the stands? They need to raise that up onto the rafter portion. This didn't make sense to me.

At $60/entry, why doesn't Robogames have a ventilation system? It wouldn't take much to be able to evacuate the lipo fire smoke outside. Do the workers know how toxic that is? I watched a guy go breathe that on two separate occasions to put out fires. That was pretty crazy to me. At one point they even evacuated the stands as the smoke was seeping out into the crowd.

Right at about 4pm. Terrortops (awesome robot and thanks for putting the name on the side) let out this spectacular lipo confetti and caught on fire. This is when they evacuated everyone from the stands, and most people left. The staff was breaking down the smaller arenas for the smaller bots, and I assumed the event was over. Without knowledge of the fight bracket, and no announcers, it looked to me like it was done. So we left and went to eat. Before going back to the parking garage, we went to the restrooms and saw there was another fight taking place. We went back in and watched for a bit more at 5pm, and then once again people started filtering out and no new bots were entering, so we left.

Overall entertaining, and my kids liked it for a bit too. But for $120 and what I saw, I think next time I'll just buy them one of the biped robots on eBay to play with, and watch the combat on youtube.

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I was really hoping to see them perform well this toboganes as they’ve been one of my favorite teams since they debuted.

After this, however, it seems they are only good against other bad teams lol. Lost to Rotator, Manta, Black Dragon, and Jackpot now. Sure they won a few matches but against teams without weapons. They have been around for 3 years now and keep falling flat.

2 arena breaches and a massive LiPo fire later, I’m not sure if they deserve to be as hyped as they are, or even in Battlebots the show. Might make a good proving grounds team tho. I’m just tired of the hype and want new robots that can actually win.