Summary:Team ARC made a surprise appearance to Maidstone to bring Big Dave 3 to the arena for the first time! Reality:Team ARC made a surprise appearance to Maidstone to bring Big Dave 3 to the arena… only to find he (she? it?) is partial to eating its own tyres, so we didn’t get to test […]
Read More →It’s cold outside, no kind of stratosphere I’m all alone, more or less, Let me flail, far away from here, Swish, swish, swish, in the ring, ring, ring. I want to push, crush and annihilate Taking dents out of your plates Twisted Nipplenuts nibbling at your bots! Swish, swish, swish, in the ring, ring, ring […]
Read More →This’ll be a monster post, etotheipiplusone style, so strap in. It started off as a fairly simple plan: I have made zero progress on any featherweights I’ve set out to do mainly due to life (new job, new city, the paintball season (it’s a thing), filming, ‘Merica, lack of money, etc) – so naturally, it’s […]
Read More →Today Ali went to the first ever Robodojo, hosted by KB Technologies in their workshop near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. It was billed as a place for roboteers to meet, socialise and fight bots! Starting at 10 (Ali arrived late due to the Kirkstall Festival in Leeds and housewarming party in York the night before), there […]
Read More →Last weekend, we hosted the 55th Antweight World Series at Dunchurch Village Hall, near Rugby. The full video will be out at some point tomorrow – but for now, here’s a teaser:
Read More →AWS 55 has been and gone. What happened*? We used ARC’s (read Chris’s) brand new Antweight arena and it worked! OK, the floor wasn’t perfect and the software threw a hiccup a couple of times, but other than that the actual event seemed to largely go off without a hitch. It handled 6 1/2 hours […]
Read More →So, it’s the night before Antweight World Series 55. What is this, I hear you cry? And how come the other 54 iterations of said institution haven’t lit up the world yet? And how are going to remedy this situation? Antweight World Series is also known as AWS. As you can probably guess, there have been […]
Read More →We managed a cheeky day in the workshop over the bank holiday. It can be summed up in one sentence; we have an antweight arena (well almost)! Chris has been hard at work at making the innovative antweight arena and I can I am impressed with the end product! It is very good to drive […]
Read More →Ok, so it’s a bit late. Not much chance lately to summarise our day out to Manchester! For those who don’t know, Manchester XR (Extreme Robots) is traditionally the first live show of the heavyweight fighting robots calendar. It brings competitors from all over the UK to EventCity in Trafford, just off the M60. Rob […]
Read More →*ahem*. I don’t like to talk much. But I might as well introduce myself. I’m a motorised golf caddy. Before fighting robots I spent many days just going round the golf courses. Nothing exciting really, it’s a job. Paid well, you got treated well. But then, one day, something terrible happened. My battery dies. My […]
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