Speaking Of Evil Killer Robots
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Apropos of Whurley’s account of his near-death robot experience, imagine what they coulda done with another robot and a giant bulletproof robot arena?
Here’s two other superheavyweights, Ziggy (the white one) and The Judge (both of whom you might recognize from some TV show or other:
Keep in mind that though they look small on the screen, these guys are each 340 pounds of solid robot muscle. They regularly tuna-can the arena bumpers (those I-beams inside the arena) with very little effort. They also take three or four people to load in and out, and they are sharp and pointy.
Here are two more ‘bots that I know for a fact are never, ever, ever tested or demo’ed anywhere where there is even a remote chance a human might get in the way, and these guys are “only” 220-pound Heavyweights. Please take note of the squeals of childish delight as the mechanisms steadily beat the shit out of each other:
This is Brutality Vs. Megabyte. Megabyte has been a robot combat knucklehead since small times, and is truly the major reason we had to buy and entirely new arena. Brutality is notable in that Little Paulie Ventimiglia, age 19 at the time, beat the living heck out of previously undefeated world Battlebots champ Biohazard.
On his first ever robot combat outing. With his first ever combat robot. I love evolution.
Here’s another video that shows you don’t have top have a Spinning Thing Of Death to kick serious ass:
That was Sewer Snake Vs. Original Sin, both of whom tightly conform to Judge Dave’s Rule, “Learn To Fucking Drive”. That match was at MakerFaire 2007 (which coincidentally is coming up soonish!)
Here’s another video that shows exactly what kind of physical forces we’re the dealing with here. There’s a reason we have an arena with a roof:
Once again, these robots are as large and heavy as Steel Reign, the robot which figured in the BarCamp Austin Anomaly. Look at how big the robot is compared to the humans. We’re not talking tinkertoys here, boys and girls.
The best part about this whole debacle, is that it is proven that it’s WAY better live.
So get your tickets to RoboGames and bring your freakin’ earplugs already.
