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BattleBots – August Spotlight

Posted on July 16, 2020August 4, 2020

Last year in BattleBots, one of the large bots that participated in the hobbyweight (12 lb weight limit) division at Motorama was Apachi, an experimental bent-bar spinner with a shuffler-style drivetrain. The drivetrain worked exactly as intended and the robot pitter-pattered its way around its opponents. Its downfall was its bent bar weapon, which snapped in half after receiving a hit. An improvised chain-based weapon ultimately gave Apachi the (audience decided) victory in the hobbyweight rumble. Chonki, a new robot (shown above), is taking the lessons learned from Apachi and making another bot with a shuffler-style drivetrain. Chonki is a shell spinner, a weapon type which will benefit greatly from the additional 50% weight afforded by using a shuffling drivetrain instead of the typical wheels. If you’d like to see a video of Apachi in action, follow this link.

BattleBots team members working on Apachi’s drivetrain

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