• IG-88


      Statistics
      • Weight: 99kg
      • Height: 65cm
      • Length: 70cm
      • Width: 116cm
      • Speed: 12mph
      • Year built: 2003
      • Status: Retired
      • Weight class: Heavyweight
      • Location: Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England


      Armour
      Steel and Aluminium. Stainless steel skirts
      Power
      2 x Electric motors running on 750 watts, one powering each wheel.
      Weapons
      Bi-Rotational axe at front, rear end is also wedge-shaped for shunting.
      Strengths
      Agility, speed, low ground-clearance and a very destructive weapon.
      Weaknesses
      Weak armour and unable to self-right
      Team Vader
      Paul Rose, Simon Latham, Phillip Calthorpe and Anton Grounds
      Information
      IG-88 is the second heavyweight robot built by Team Vader from Essex. It was built in 2003 for the 7th series of the UK Robot Wars where it did well before reaching its heat final where it was knocked out by Dantomkia. IG-88 is well known for its powerful bi-rotational axe which caused a lot of damage to certain robots in Robot Wars like Scorpion and King B Powerworks.