By Cameron Loyd This year for the first time, the RoboJackets BattleBots team competed in the National Havoc Robot League (NHRL). The NHRL was chosen as an alternative to the much-beloved Motorama as BattleBots’s new yearly “big bots” competition. Four bot teams traveled to NHRL in Norwalk, CT to compete — three 30-lbers (Chonkiii, Anxieti,…
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Hocki: A New Kind of BattleBot
by Dallas Downing. The goal in combat robot competitions is to make a weaponized robot that can either destroy its competition or demonstrate enough control and aggression to make it a clear winner. In general, that typically means having a robot with a weapon attached, like a flipper, a spinner, or a flamethrower. Other approaches…
2 lber Program Update
by Jonathan Spalten. Many BattleBots alumni will remember the 3lber program, the new member training project in which new members break into teams and work together to make a 3lb combat robot, culminating in a road trip to Motorama to compete in a real competition. Like everything else this year, the team has had to…
BattleBots – August Spotlight
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…