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It even works in video games. If anybody remembers Robot Rage on Miniclip. My strategy for that game was not to buy any weapons, but to buy the thickest armour and the biggest battery and ram into the other guy. Worked almost every time.
Incidentally, that’s also my technique for the art of lovemaking.
Extra parts means extra failure points. The Nudge is just KISS on steroids.
Roadblock my beloved.
Literally a wok attached to a lawn mower engine with blades welded on. Undefeated. Disqualified for being “too dAnGEwoUS”.
Comically nowadays it would be essentially useless. Full body spinners have fallen so far behind in the meta that they’re practically a joke.
I haven’t watched the robot fighting shows in a decade, why are full spinners trash in the meta now?
Tell me they called it the Wok of Death or something similar.
Blendo, if I recall correctly
This was Jamie Hyneman, and Adam Savage’s robot (of MythBusters fame). It was given the championship 2 seperate years in exchange for not competing anymore, as you said, because it was too dangerous and flinging robot parts over the arena walls.
Just here to specify that “over the arena walls” is quite literal since the first arena didn’t have a ceiling. The flung pieces were thrown into the public, luckily never injuring anybody.
Shouldn’t the entire arena be in plexiglass so parts can’t fly over walls?
never trust protective glass when hyneman is involved in any way.
yeah, but i’ve seen that shatter too
If it’s good enough for the sides, it should work for the top
Could’ve been defeated with a net but those are banned, or a bucket of clay, but is also banned.
A high-gain EM jammer also, but those are banned.
A fine graphite powder, banned.
Thermal lance? Banned.
.50 BMG round? Banned.No one gets to have any fun…
pocket-sand!
You can clearly see the blades are bolted on, not (just) welded.
Welding would ruin the temper of the steel, bolting also allows them to be changed when they dull… or so, I’ve been told.
if you want to see this in action, obwalden overlord vs warhead is a good match.
Thanks for the rec!
Exactly this. Overlord’s primary weapons and defense were held on by relatively thin and delicate arms that Warhead just broke almost instantly with the first bite.
A simple and sturdy design is hard to beat.
What were they thinking? That real robot battles look like those in cartoons?
they went for entertainment value. the higher you get in the bracket the more samey the fights tend to get. optimizing for performance alone would make for a boring show.
KISS principle
