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Interview with Battlebots Champion

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rip-mix-burn dept.

Scoop writes "With the fifth season of BattleBots debuting a few days ago on Comedy Central, UGO.com chatted up contestant Jim Smentowski, creator of champion BattleBot, Nightmare. Jim shared his views on the hit show, his experience with Gary Coleman and robotics in general. No word yet on the rumored love-child between Smentowski and BB host, Carmen Electra."

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  1. RoboCup Soccer by geekgirl21 · · Score: 2, Informative

    When the robots become autonomous, battling without human intervention, then I'll start showing real interest.

    You'd probably be interested in RoboCup Soccer. The goal of this ambitious robotics project is to develop a team of fully autonomous robots that can defeat the human champion team of soccer by the year 2050.

  2. Re:this is taken to seriously.... by MattHawk · · Score: 3, Informative

    That (somewhat) exists. It isn't possible to just fight whatever you bring, due to not wanting to off and kill all the spectators with exploding robots, but there are smaller non-televised competitions that are builder/live-audience focused. Most of them are on the east coast, started due to the fact that it costs as much to go to San Fran to compete as it does to build a robot if you don't live in or near California. Anyone in North Carolina, there's one coming up in a week - Details are available at http://www.secr.org