Merlin

Statistics
Weight: 99.7kg
Height: 21cm
Length: 90cm
Width: 70cm
Speed: 10mph
Year built: 2006
Status: Active
Weight class: Heavyweight
Location: Whitwick, Leicestershire, England


Armour
Shell is a mix of 3.2mm Titanium & 4mm Hardox
Power
Its two wheels are powered by 2 x Bosch motors running on 750 watts. Batteries are 3 x 24v 3Ah NiCad Botpacks.
Weapons
Full-pressure CO2 powered flipper
Strengths
Has the ability to run inverted and has a srimech.
Weaknesses
Exposed wheels.
Team MAD
Alan Young, Dave Young, Mike Young, Anne Young and Adam Henderson
Information
Merlin is the first ever heavyweight built by Team MAD from Leicestershire, the first version was built in 2003 for the 7th series of Robot Wars, however it suffered technical issues the day before the qualifiers so pulled out. It has however enjoyed more success on the live event circuit usually taking home the silver on a lot of occasions. However it did win the Roaming Robots Magna event in 2005, Robots Live! at Huddersfield in 2008 and Robots of Destruction in 2008. It's greatest achievement was winning the Tag Team Championships in 2006 with Velocirippa. Merlin has been rebuilt and upgraded so many times over the years but it still retains its flipper which has proved a lot of times at being good at throwing a robot over the fence. Sharing its name with a famous wizard, this robots capable of making a lot of contestants disappear as if by magic.

Achievements
• Roaming Robots - Steel City Showdown 2004 Runner-Up
• Roaming Robots - Magna 2005 Winner
• Roaming Robots - Denbigh 2005 Runner-Up
• Fighting Robots UK Championships 2005 Quarter-Finalist (Roaming Robots Winter Tour)
• Fighting Robots UK Championships 2006 Finalist
• Fighting Robots Tag Team Champions 2006 with Velocirippa
• 3rd in Roaming Robots Winter Tour 2006
• Robots of Destruction 2007 Winner
• Robots of Destruction 2008 Runner-Up
• Robots Live! - Huddersfield 2008 Winner
• Fighting Robots UK Championships 2011 Quarter-Finalist
• Robots Live! - 3rd in Team Championships 2011 with Team Saints & Sinners
• Robots: Extreme Wars Live! - Maidstone 2011 Runner-up