This may be dumb, but what about a drive system that relies on the bot sliding. The "wheel" would have one point of contact with the ground and hit the ground pushing the bot forward or backwards. This is directed toward smaller weight classes namely 1lb. Let me know what you think!

The reason why Radioactive vs Sweet Revenge was a thing was probably because the producers wanted Sweet Revenge to go through. They showed brief clips of the team during the highlight reel of their only fight (something they didn't do with Radioactive, despite coming from a far more established team)

The logic was probably to build Sweet Revenge up as the schoolgirl team that could. The team that defied the odds by beating against the veteran Brits.

Sadly for them (and in many ways, us) Sweet Revenge didn't even work, and I suspect was probably on the caliber of the first build of Expulsion and Tracktion (Robot Wars school teams)

It was awesome!

Rise of the Robots continue coverage of the second season of Robot Wars Extreme. Join Alan & The Griz as they discuss the Robot Rampage where the Middleweights, Lightweights, Featherweights and Antweights come out to play.

You can check out the episode at the link below or on your podcatcher of choice. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/rise-of-the-robot0/episodes/S28-Ep11-Rise-of-the-Robots-Robot-Wars-Extreme-Series-2--The-Robot-Rampage-e2u5j5g

Hi guys! I am a long time watcher of battlebots, but it has just recently been taken off my tv! I used to watch it on game tv, but I can't find it anywhere! Does anyone know where to watch it? much appreciated!

I'm a longtime Battlebots fan but I've also really gotten into NHRL over the last few months. It would be amazing to check out NHRL in person, but I don't know if/when I could do that.

I notice that a number of NHRL robots such as Pramheda and Ugee are apparently based in Pittsburgh.

I have heard of Bots IQ but my understanding is this is largely for high school students and probably not really near the level of NHRL or Battlebots.

Is anyone aware of events in this general area? I found https://www.robotcombatevents.com/ and https://robotcombatwiki.com/wiki/Events with no luck, but maybe someone knows something?

Many thanks!

Chomp and Nelly meet outside the Bot Clinic

https://youtu.be/EvdkHLKCSRI?si=OiIoMeZ6wxditwyD

One of the most insane fights with a even more insane ending

If Riptide was sold to another team and was competing in either Faceoffs or a new season of Battlebots, who would you want to see them fight?

I think Riptide vs Orbitron or Riptide vs Manta would be super interesting to watch. Manta is basically a flatter, wider version of Riptide.

Which is the absolutly worst, heavy, expensive piece of junk that has entered the show and given shame in battle?

Thinks is radioactive, that is seriously sh#t

I’m not talking about fights like Minotaur vs Whiplash where both machines had unexpected technical problems. What’s the worst fight between good robots that actually worked.

In the same spirit, you can’t include matches that were let down by an attempt that backfired horribly (so no Sawblaze vs Skorpios or Hydra vs Huge)

For some of my picks:

• Brutus vs Lockjaw
• Lockjaw vs Bombshell (all of them)
• Icewave vs Yeti
• Tombstone vs Quantum
• Beta vs Rotator
• Valkyrie vs Glitch
• End Game vs Sawblaze (WCVI)

What's the point of counting them out when getting them outside Battlebox is an automatic win? In RW if a robot is flipped OOTA they don't have a countdown afterwards as they're counted as immobile.

It seems like the Discovery Channel isn't interested in airing the next season of Battlebots. Which TV channel or streaming service would you like to see broadcast it? Netflix? Disney+? Amazon? Paramount+?

Paramount+ seems like a good choice to me. I'll bet that there is a big overlap of Star Trek fans and Battlebots fans.

Newbie here. It looks to me like the hammer bots and the flipper bots sometimes miss an opportunity to trigger their weapon at the right time. If you put a sensor on the tongue of the flipper so that it automatically triggered whenever there was anything on top of it you wouldn't miss those opportunities. Is that allowed?

Hello, I've been having that quote stuck in my head forever. I must've seen it in a one-off video I watched of Battlebots cause I normally don't watch it. It has to be from 2019 or before then. If anyone can help me I appreciate it. I tried r/tipofmytongue with no success.

My Wife keeps saying the quote cause she knows it gets under my skin that I can't find the video of the guy saying that.

Video is 2:29 minutes long - quite outdated now but I like in depth stuff but kinda interesting still: https://youtu.be/-Etdj8xNb74?si=2S6gExMT-Q9rurqN