URO
Statistics
Weight: 100kg
Height: 35cm
Length: 120cm
Width: 120cm
Speed: 8mph
Year built: 2003
Status: Retired
Weight class: Heavyweight
Location: Lancing, West Sussex, England
Armour
Steel and Aluminium
Power
3 x Electric motors powering its 2-wheel drive and weapon.
Weapons
2.5kg Steel cutting disc.
Strengths
Can run either way up and has a powerful disc.
Weaknesses
Vulnerable to axe attacks.
Team M.I.B.O.
Mark Stringer, Peter Loeber & Chris Loeber
Information
U.R.O. (which stands for Unidentified Rotating Object) was built by Team M.I.B.O. (Men In Black Overalls) from West Sussex. It was built in 2003 for UK Seventh Series of Robot Wars where it fell in the first round to seeded Bigger Brother and the eventual champion Typhoon 2. U.R.O. was designed to run either-way up and also have a full-body spinner making it a destructive natured robot.