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.
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