Robots Rule - The Robots

This page gives you information on some of the robot warriors out there. Some of these robots have featured in Robot Wars and have now retired. Others have been in both Robot Wars and now take part in many live events and in the open circuit. These events are organised by the FRA, an organisation containing roboteers and event organisers.

Click a robot below to quickly go to the description of that robot on this page:

Some of the replica pullback toys of the contestant robots. From top left going clockwise: Chaos 2, Pussycat, X-Terminator, Panic Attack and Hypno-Disc.

This robot cost a pound and a penny to build, hence the name 101! A very experienced robot and a very experienced roboteer driving it.

Team	Mike Franklin, Amy Franklin, Steve Bickle
Weight	90kg
Height	40cm
Length	103cm
Width	94cm
Speed	10mph
Weapons	Super fast spike
Weakness	Tracks prone to being ripped off

This robot has two spinners, one on each end which can spin up to 1100 rpm and wreck havoc in the arena.

Team	John Denny, Richard Morris, Tasha Denny
Weight	100kg
Height	39cm
Length	185cm
Width	75cm
Speed	20mph
Weapons	Two spinning discs. The blade tip has an estimated speed of 100mph.
Armour	High grade chrome-moly steel
Weakness	Remote control can be unreliable

This robot has had several incarnations, including Steg-O-Saw-Us and Steg 2. This mean and green machine always gives Craig inspiration for some dinosaur jokes!

Team	Peter Rowe, Danny King, Richard Francis
Weight	96kg
Height	24cm
Length	112cm
Width	79cm
Speed	16mph
Weapons	Spinning cutter
Weakness	Not very effective weapon

Team	Peter Leach, Bob Leach, John Leach
Weight	99kg
Height	35cm
Length	140cm
Width	94cm
Speed	10mph
Weapons	Cutting jaws
Armour	Aluminium alloy
Weakness	Aluminium not the most resistant against heavy blows

Team	Stephen Bebb, Paul Francis, David Bebb
Weight	100kg
Height	40cm
Length	90cm
Width	75cm
Speed	12mph
Weapons	Flipper
Weakness	Can flip itself over (as seen in the second semi final of the Seventh Wars)

Team	Zac Barber, Damian Barber, Bruce Barber
Weight	99kg
Height	47cm
Length	80cm
Width	98cm
Speed	20mph
Weapons	Flipper
Weakness	Hard to self-right

Team	Simon Rafferty, Guy Radford, Chris Watts
Weight	100kg
Height	49cm
Length	71cm
Width	118cm
Speed	10mph
Weapons	Full body spinner
Armour	Plastic (yep, you read correct!)
Weakness	Made of plastic

The Behemoth team prepare their robot for the next battle during the recording of the Seventh Wars in August 2003.

It has a top speed of 6 mph. It has a titanium shell and 5 mm of titanium on the bucket. It has a pneumatic scoop as a weapon which is very good at flipping over other robots. It has a good yellow and black colour scheme.

Team	Anthony Pritchard, Kane Aston, Michael Pritchard
Weight	100kg
Height	64cm
Length	102cm
Width	66cm
Speed	12mph
Weapons	Flipper and axe
Weakness	Flipper can easily be bent out of shape

This is an improved version of the previous Big Brother. It can flip other robots with that awesome flipping weapon.

Team	Ian Watts, Joe Watts, Ellie Watts
Weight	99kg
Height	91cm
Length	80cm
Width	80cm
Speed	12mph
Weapons	Flipper
Armour	Welded Steel
Weakness	Could be more maneuverable

An angry looking dog on the face of the robot scares off the opposition and if that wasn't enough, the flipper should get them!

Team	Tony Somerfield, Sean Bond, Robert Somerfield
Weight	98kg
Height	30cm
Length	195cm
Width	70cm
Speed	15mph
Weapons	Flipper
Weakness	Prone to attacks from rear

Series 3 and 4 champion. It has that awesome CO₂flipper which hardly anything can beat. It can flip robots over and even out of the arena. I have lost count of how many times they have flipped a robot out of the arena! Once they have done that, they go and take on the house robots! So far, they have managed to flip over Matilda, Shunt and Sergeant Bash who they nearly got out of the arena. It was built in 6 months for £250.

Team	George Francis, Ian Swann, Richard Swann
Weight	85kg
Height	40cm
Length	90cm
Width	74cm
Speed	20mph
Weapons	Pneumatic CO² flipper
Armour	Aluminium and polycarbonate
Weakness	Eventually ruins out of carbon dioxide gas making its weapon useless.

Competed in the Sixth Wars and winners of the Iron Maiden competition in Robot Wars Extreme 2.

Team	Simon, Debs and James Cook
Weight	96kg
Height	60cm
Length	120cm
Width	67cm
Speed	N/A
Weapons	Hydraulic Jaws (Approx 1 Ton at the end of the jaw)
Weakness	Prone to flipping

A very strong contender in the sport. In one of their early battles, they managed to beat previous king of flippers, Chaos 2 when they got it right out of the arena! They gave them a bit of their own medicine! The robot is named after Mike's (the creator of the robot) three children, Dan, Tom and Kia. It has a brilliant high pressured flipper and not many can beat it.

Team	Michael Lambert, Daniel Lambert, Steven Gadsby
Weight	100kg
Height	36cm
Length	120cm
Width	80cm
Speed	20mph
Weapons	High pressure flipper
Armour	Steel, Titanium and Polycarbonate
Weakness	Nervous Driver

This Irish team are wonderful sports even if they don't do very well in the arena which tends to be the case most of the time! It has a small flipper weapon. It is covered in fur (red with black dots all over it) which tends to catch fire very easily! Put some bread on it and you'll have toast after the fight! Sgt Bash loves setting this robot on fire.

Team	Peter Redmond, Dr Zulu and Joe Gavin
Weight	92kg
Height	55cm
Length	117cm
Width	104cm
Speed	6 mph
Weapons	Flipper
Armour	Red and black spotty fur
Weakness	Very flammable!

Team	Mark Marshall, Nick Bullock, Oliver Reid-Smith
Weight	98kg
Height	33cm
Length	122cm
Width	77cm
Speed	30mph
Weapons	Spinning disc
Weakness	Exposed wheels

They boast a brilliant axe which comes down with some force damaging their opposition and they also boast about their plasma nitride coated titanium (basically, painted titanium) which they say is one of the hardest and toughest armour in existence. It sure is hard as almost nothing can get through it!

Team	Paul Tolliday, Elliot Smart, Chris Hall
Weight	100kg
Height	60cm
Length	130cm
Width	80cm
Speed	20mph
Weapons	Pneumatic Axe
Armour	Titanium
Weakness	Hard to target axe in right place and it often misses its target.

Team	Stephen Egerton, Chris Prest
Weight	100kg
Height	84cm
Length	119cm
Width	80cm
Speed	12mph
Weapons	Axe and wedge
Weakness	Flippable

This robot has a flipping arm powered by a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher. It cost £2000 to build and it was built in 3 months. Its top speed is 12 mph. It can move around very easily because of its good go-kart wheels. One of the best tactics is to flip a robot over so it is standing up leaning against the arena walls so it can't self right again.

Team	Graham Bone, Hazel Heslop
Weight	100kg
Height	36cm
Length	110cm
Width	83cm
Speed	12mph
Weapons	Pneumatic Flipper
Armour	Aluminium
Weakness	Poor pushing power because of the 2-wheel drive and not a 4-wheel drive.

Team	Peter Holroyd, Peter Johnson, Richard Johnson
Weight	97kg
Height	20cm
Length	103cm
Width	66cm
Speed	8mph
Weapons	Vicious double-headed spinning axe
Armour	Steel
Weakness	Prone to breakdowns

Got to mention this robot because it was the first clusterbot in Robot Wars. This means that they go into the arena as one robot and then they can split into two. Each robot has a fantastic flipper which can really make other robots fly. If one robot is flipped over, the other can flip it back the right way up again which is a good advantage but rules state that if one of the clusterbots is immobilised, then both are out which is a big disadvantage.

Team	Shane Howard, Brian Fountain, Daryl Howard
Weight	100kg
Height	47cm
Length	160cm
Width	68cm
Speed	24mph
Weapons	High powered flipper
Armour	Steel shell
Weakness	If one bot immobilised, whole bot out. Each cluster is easily flipped and finds it hard to self right.

Team	Dennis Leadbeater, Andrew Leadbeater
Weight	99kg
Height	50cm
Length	120cm
Width	81cm
Speed	10mph
Weapons	Axe / sledgehammer
Armour	Aluminium
Weakness	Aluminium isn't very resistant against heavy blows

That terrifying disc spinning at over 750 rpm can not only scratch robots but pull their whole armour off. Then they go in and take out all the batteries and everything from the inside! They were very close to winning series 4 but Pussycat took out their wheel so they were just sitting their and then Shunt put its axe into the disc stopping that from working. Oh dear but anyway, it is a superb, destructive robot capable of spinning many robots into hundreds of tiny pieces. It has a top speed of 10 mph and it is made out of an aluminium and mild steel shell with custom made wheels. You have to spin to win!

Team	Dave Rose, Derek Rose, Ken Rose
Weight	100kg
Height	26cm
Length	92cm
Width	56cm
Speed	10mph
Weapons	Big spinning destructive disc
Armour	Aluminium
Weakness	Poor pushing power

Team	Alan Blakeman, Paul Blakeman, Dave Cluely
Weight	96kg
Height	40cm
Length	126cm
Width	97cm
Speed	12mph
Weapons	Flipper
Weakness	Limited C02 supply to weapon

Team	Alistair O'Neil, Andy Kane, Tom Kane
Weight	100kg
Height	26cm
Length	148cm
Width	130cm
Speed	18mph
Weapons	Horizontal crushing jaws & battering ram
Weakness	Exposed wheels

Kat 3, their striking orange robot with the axe weapon is ready for battle in the pits during the recording of the Seventh Wars.

Great costumes and great theming for a cat! This orange feline terror has recently become one to watch out for!

Team	Keith Williams, Georje Reed, Julie Anne Williams
Weight	97kg
Height	115cm
Length	125cm
Width	84cm
Speed	10mph
Weapons	Pneumatic axe
Weakness	Axe doesn't cause too much damage

Team	Rob Englebright, Adam Englebright, Mark Hale
Weight	100kg
Height	55cm
Length	153cm
Width	105cm
Speed	8mph
Weapons	Flipper
Weakness	Vulnerable to spinning discs

Known as King Buxton in the Second Wars and King B3 in the Fourth Wars, now King B Powerworks have always seemed to have a grudge with 101 as they always seem to be meeting them in the war zone.

Team	Simon Harrison, Grant Hornsby
Weight	96kg
Height	25cm
Length	105cm
Width	74cm
Speed	16mph
Weapons	Saw disc and flipper
Weakness	Weapons not that effective

Team	Dave Lang, John Lang, Mike Gardner
Weight	99kg
Height	65cm
Length	130cm
Width	98cm
Speed	20mph
Weapons	Two flippers
Weakness	Prone to axe attacks

This robot used to be a classic fair ground dodgem car! A very memorable moment for this robot was went Shunt completely decapitated them during the Fifth Wars.

Team	Henry Ryan, John Morris, Arthur Robinson
Weight	90kg
Height	89cm
Length	103cm
Width	94cm
Speed	10mph
Weapons	Vertical spinning flywheel
Weakness	Prone to axe attacks and rear attacks

Team	Dorian Caudy, Mark Hooper, Huw White
Weight	99kg
Height	60cm
Length	150cm
Width	90cm
Speed	12mph
Weapons	Shunting and lifting flipper and a rear cutting disc
Armour	Kevlar Shell
Weakness	No self-righter

A Razer look-a-like robot, this machine features a crushing arm too. It has taken part in many series of Robot Wars. They lost in the Sixth Wars when its wheels fell off and couldn't move at all.

Team	Andrew Cotterell, Alexander Cotterell, Oliver Cotterell
Weight	99kg
Height	86cm
Length	130cm
Width	76cm
Speed	15mph
Weapons	Hydraulic Crushing Arm
Weakness	Weak and exposed wheels

A robot which took part in many series of Robot Wars, especially the early ones. Their robot was very expensive. It cost them £10,000 to build! Their robot is technically advanced but hasn't won too many battles because they often fall foul to the pit of oblivion!

Team	Rob Knight, Arthur Chilcott, Paul Ford
Weight	100kg
Height	36cm
Length	91cm
Width	76cm
Speed	12mph
Weapons	Axe and Lifter
Armour	Kevlar Shell
Weakness	Can be unreliable and weapons could be more effective

Team	Stan Launchbury, Jason Launchbury
Weight	95kg
Height	45cm
Length	150cm
Width	70cm
Speed	9.5mph
Weapons	Scaled up version of a mousetrap
Armour	Steel
Weakness	Limited supply of CO2 for weapon

Team	Adam Emmitt, Daniel Emmett
Weight	99kg
Height	22cm
Length	95cm
Width	62cm
Speed	15mph
Weapons	High pressure flippers
Armour	Stainless Steel
Weakness	Self righter rarely works successfully

Team	David Crosby, Vikki Allgood, Michelle Davey
Weight	100kg
Height	108cm
Length	118cm
Width	106cm
Speed	8mph
Weapons	Steel spikes on arm
Armour	Titanium hull
Weakness	Slow speed

Panic Attack, the pullback replica toy. In the above picture you can see what the robot looks like and also their weapons, the lifting folks.

Champion of Series 2, this 8 mph robot made of aluminium, polycarbonate and bulletproof fibreglass has two electric lifting forks on the front. It has a wonderful paint work on its shell. This robot is able to lift twice its own weight. It has very good pushing power.

Team	Kevin Pritchard, Jamie McGarry
Weight	96kg
Height	130cm
Length	110cm
Width	90cm
Speed	8mph
Weapons	Pneumatically powered lifting forks
Armour	Polycarbonate
Weakness	Slow at self righting

Excellent sports but they don't do very well in the warzone. However, they do very well with their funny jokes and their songs! They wear black and more black with black sunglasses. The robot is always out of control. In the second wars, they drove straight into the pit and in series 3 they never got moving! It is a tracked robot and it is made of aluminium. It has a top speed of 15 mph. You have got to love their songs: "Shout out loud, make lots of noise, there's damage to be done by the plunderbird boys. Gonna stamp on you, gonna hit you hard. Gonna send your robot to the breaker's yard. What's the word? PLUNDERBIRD!"

Team	Mike Onslow, Bryan Kilburn
Weight	100kg
Height	25cm
Length	120cm
Width	94cm
Speed	8mph
Weapons	Hydraulic slicing claw
Armour	Aluminium
Weakness	Hardly ever got moving. Very poor reliability.

With that incredibly destructive circular blade, Pussycat can chop up almost everything damaging all opponents. It did very well in series 4, only Chaos 2 could beat it. It has a shell made of aluminium and polycarbonate. It has a maximum speed of 14 mph which is quite fast for a robot. The lovely paint work on it was hand-painted by Alan.

Team	Stuart Barnwell, Amanda Barnwell, Roger Barnwell
Weight	96kg
Height	56cm
Length	90cm
Width	63cm
Speed	14mph
Weapons	Spinning circular blade
Armour	Aluminium and polycarbonate metal panelling
Weakness	Exposed wheels

The brilliant Razer robot. It looks beautiful and is one of the most deadly robots on Robot Wars.

One of the best looking robots on Robot Wars, it has the perfect crushing weapon of destruction. It is made out of aluminium and steel. The only problem with the robot is that it has a very poor reliability and it is known for breaking down often. However, despite its break downs, it has managed to win the world championship twice. Its maximum speed is 11 mph. It has 450 holes drilled into the robot to keep its weight down. The crushing piercer and exert 9 tonnes of pressure! Razer won the Fifth Wars. They also won the first two World Championships, fighting for England.

Team	Simon Scott, Ian Lewis, Vincent Blood
Weight	96kg
Height	39cm
Length	106cm
Width	66cm
Speed	11mph
Weapons	Large front scoop and the famous crushing piercer beak.
Armour	Aluminium and Steel
Weakness	Poor reliability and slow self-righting mechanism

Team	Gordon Townley, Cheryl Townley, Peter Seabourne
Weight	98kg
Height	33cm
Length	86cm
Width	80cm
Speed	10mph
Weapons	Flipper and disc
Armour	Made from metal found on an alien planet!
Weakness	High ground clearance and prone to being abducted by aliens!

Team	Peter Forsey, Jake Forsey, Sam Forsey
Weight	99kg
Height	48cm
Length	66cm
Width	78cm
Speed	8mph
Weapons	Flipper and full body spinner
Armour	Good old steel
Weakness	Prone to weapon failure

Winners of the first ever series of Robot Wars, so I must mention them! They were grand finalists in the Second Wars and came third overall. They returned as Beast of Bodmin (with a wink in its eye for Philippa!) in the Third Wars. Road Block was a well built robot which deserved to win.

Team	Hender Blewett, Chris Kinsey, Peter Kinsey
Weight	80.9kg
Height	45cm
Length	160cm
Width	110cm
Speed	8mph
Weapons	Rear mounted circular saw, front ram (wedge shaped) which can go in at speed and topple other robot

Team	Jason Snow, Tyler Booth, Alec Dick
Weight	95kg
Height	80cm
Length	124cm
Width	88cm
Speed	15mph
Weapons	Flipper and cutting disc
Weakness	Hard to self-right

One of the best new robots to the Fifth Wars. This awesome destructive robot resembles a hammer head shark shape and their brilliant spinning disc weapon can really dish out the destruction. The team competed as Sting in Series 2 and Sting 2 in Series 3, which unfortunately, did not get very far.

Team	David Barker, Ian Pritchard, Pete Allsopp
Weight	100kg
Height	65cm
Length	90cm
Width	132cm
Speed	20mph
Weapons	20kg vertical flywheel spinning disc
Armour	Aluminium
Weakness	Aluminium armour is not the most resistant against heavy blows.

The team met over the Internet and built the entire robot over cyberspace as well! Gosh! The name stands for Sorry Mate I Didn't See You. The SMIDSY team, for Sumo in Series 4, put salt in the robot's jaws so they could sprinkle it everywhere like with Sumo wrestlers!

Team	Mik Reed, Robin Bennett, Andy Pugh
Weight	99kg
Height	26cm
Length	120cm
Width	80cm
Speed	10mph
Weapons	Ramming, lifting and piercing jaws and a rear spinning blade
Weakness	Can be flipped on to arena side wall easily

Excellent sports and comedians, always guaranteed to get a laugh! One year they come in with a load of dancing girls, the next, they are wearing many different styles of jazzy suits! Great sports but unfortunately the robot usually doesn't get that far through the rounds.