Robots Battle to the Death!

spiffy1 writes "BattleBots, a fighting tournament between remote-controlled robots, took place this weekend at Long Beach, California. Contestants built robots which were pit against other robots in the same weight class (Kilobot, Megabot, and Gigabot), and tried to disable their opponent by ramming them, cutting them, or tossing them around in a DEADLY ARENA filled with ROTATING BLADES and NASTY SPIKES! The big winner in both the "Gigabot Duel" and the "Best Engineering" categories was "BioHazard" - a wide flat thing with a massive flipping arm. Check out the zdnet article and some pictures and videos at ZDTV. "

Comments

Re:Weapons of choice?

[John Campbell]

Do you want to be the guy who has to debug a large, armed autonomous vehicle?

"I think we're OW! having a prob OW! lem with the OW! tracking system OW! again..."

dorks

[jackmott]

"eh, weve had this in the BBC for years, this isnt news"

"I played with robots BEFORE they were cool, these are just posers"

"We did this in my preschool with blindfolds on"

SHUT UP!
fighting robots is cool.