Obsidian

Statistics
Weight: 96kg
Height: 40cm
Length: 100cm
Width: 80cm
Speed: 9mph
Year built: 2008
Status: Retired
Weight class: Heavyweight
Location: Hoogvliet, Rotterdam, The Netherlands


Armour
10-20mm HDPE
Power
24v Electric motors
Weapons
Bladed axe which is interchangeable for a pick axe or a hammer.
Strengths
Is small and has strong armour.
Weaknesses
Exposed wheels
Team RCC
Leo Van Miert, Mario de Jongh, Babeth Van Son, Niels Schotten and Rick Mass.
Information
The first version of Obsidian was originally built in 2001 by Phil Upton from Derbyshire. It made only one appearance on TVs Robot Wars where it lost in the first round of its heat to S.M.I.D.S.Y.. It was then sold to another unknown buyer who had it in his care for many years but only made one appearance at a charity event. In 2007, Obsidian was sold again, this time to Team RCC who first fought with it in the 2007 UK Championships where it placed second in its pod. This version was the rebuilt version which got rebuilt in 2008 to be a lot more smaller and have a more powerful axe. Obsidian in this presence also made the finals of the UK Championships in 2008 losing out to Iron-Awe 5. In 2009, Obsidian retired after taking a lot of damage from Kan-Opener at a DRG event at Zandvoort. Obsidian had a very powerful axe that was originally powered by Nitrogen but it was changed to CO2 which certainly was aggressive against other robots that it met.