Robots Live! @ National Railway Museum - 23rd/24th March

As part of National Science & Engineering Week, Robots Live! will be at the National Railway Museum, York, for the first time.

We will be holding educational talks and lectures to the local schools throughout the week, finishing off with a weekend of robot fighting in our arena (23rd & 24th March 2013)!

The format will be similar to that of the Edinburgh and Leeds events, with the medium (8x8) arena and running 3-4 ~45minute shows a day.

10am-6pm

NRM York,
Leeman Road,
York,
YO26 4XJ

Free entry to the public.

Sign Ups available soon.

http://www.robotslive.co.uk

Thanks Alan,another northen event :D

sign us up please

Sign Ups available now! http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form ... 03bNebf7br

Please note, at the moment we will only be accepting heavyweight teams due to the limited pit space. There will be featherweight fights, for heavyweight teams with feathers. If featherweight only teams want to attend, you are welcome to sign up, and we'll let you know if we have space to fit you in nearer the time. They are already having to move the cafe and several loco's to get us in!

What, in the NRM great hall?

Just to let you know, we're in the Premier Inn, York South West, as a few were asking at the weekend.

Trying to get the wife to let us go , not looking too bad at the mo :D

Tell her there's some good shops in York :P

There are good shops in York, I live less than 20 miles away; when I am not at uni.

Too late hotel is fully booked, I blame all the crap that's posted on the forum and its put this thread right at the bottom and I didn't see it. :angry: :angry:

There's a few hotels in York, they're all much the same price really, I went with that one as I'm there from the Tuesday, so costs added up.

Anybody wanting to come, please make sure you have signed up for it, as we have to give all team members to the museum for security, so I'll be stopping sign ups for this on Sunday night.

http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form ... 03bNebf7br

It looks like heavyweight teams only due to the very limited pit space.

Looks like a brilliant venue, combines two of my favourite things and would love to have been able to come! But I'll likely be going loco on those days getting stuff ready for the following weekend. Hope the event proceeds full steam ahead (my train puns are terrible :roll: )

Stirling work with the puns. They are a pleasure to Reid. You Bulleid them out. I'll be Raven on about them for a while & then I'll Holden onto them.

job done. staying 22 miles away though :angry:
form done aswell.
better weld flipper back on :blush:

oh alan, toby will have his 4 year old sister to help him beat you up :!: :lol: :lol:

Tell Toby I have Goliath :proud:

Heavies currently signed up

Toxic
MeggaMouse
Eruption
Toon Raider
Air
Thor
Merlin
UFO
Kronic

If you are planning on coming please make sure you sign up, as the venue need to know numbers and names, i'll send an email to those signed up confirming the team members attending on Sunday.

If anyone's interested, we booked a double room and a familly room at the Mansfield Premier Inn, then decided it was to tough to go to the AWS & York, so if anyone wants them, PM :)

Email has been sent out to those signed up, please let me know if you haven't got it. Please make sure you reply to it :kiss:

Alan have you got a spare trolly for toxic as I can't fit mine in the car, or some spare floor tiles as I can bring the little trolly but its 10cm high so need an extra 30cm for height.

any luck with a spare trolly or floor tiles alan ??

I might have a spare trolley (no Guarantees!) not bringing the floor tiles, all my robots are coming (if I get them fixed) so there trolleys are being used. We'll figure something out :lame:

The roboteers email went out late Saturday night, can teams please make sure you reply to it with the names of the team members attending.

Still not had some of the replies, really need these else you're going to get held up trying to get on site!

Whilst welding my flipper I've kicked the full co2 bottle onto the floor, as it went over the edge I thought f@@@@ and ran thinking it would blow up ! Luckily it landed on the screw top valve and smashed it in half, so if anyone has a spare handle that would be great !

Would have been funny to watch that Tezza...lol

:lol: yep propably was, it sort of went off the bench in slow motion giving me plenty of time to pounce for cover :!:

Had a good day in York today,shame we can't make it tomorrow.See you all again soon.

Well lets face it you wouldn't have taken another beating from ripper, :-)

yawn

Thanks to alan and robots live, I thought the venue was great and had a brilliant weekend, sorry i couldnt stay to help but as we were driving home into snow i wanted to get away a little earlier.
There was loads of amazing things to go and see there just wasnt enough time there !
I have a little work to do know an i need to sort out a bosch 750 a wotty and some air pipes
the motor is 1 year old aswell :angry:

you know im sure robots are more trouble than women :!:

toby drove nearly all of the 7 fights this time only giving me the controller once or twice, he would have been in all 8 but i got chuck ready and just forgot to put it in the arena :blush: he wasnt happy !
but then he got an oota and seems he is more confident now, next he will want to drive toxic2 !
but getting him to drive me home would be better 8)
see you all soon

Had a cool relaxed weekend too. if you go back put Ripper down !

We had a lovely family weekend, and cool venue !

Kirsty is now officially hooked, shes already been changing the gas bottles on Ripper, drove MD in Portsmouth, but loved driving Ripper in a fight against kronic.... she did ok actually !!

Shes really nagging me for her own Heavyweight now !!

John
Robot Wars

Thanks to Robots Live for a great event! Hopefully we'll be back there next year as it seemed really popular.

Most importantly all the robots are (mainly) still working. Eruption's fine, Explosion's back on top form and Annihilation has a minor drive issue, but that can't be too hard to fix.

See you all at the Gadget Show :)

Massive thanks to the roboteers who came and braved the weather, hope you all enjoyed it, was something abit different. Also a big thanks to Mark and Graeme who helped out with that arena, driving robots etc and the Explosion lads for helping with the get out.

The event was well received by the museum and public, with over 7'000 people attending (would of been even more if half of the country hadn't been snowed in!).

Hopefully we'll be back next year, but for now next stop is Burgess Hill in a months time, see you there!

P.S. Somebody has left a child's coat in the pits, appears to be a boys ~11yrs had some Red Nose Day stuff in the pockets, let me know if it's yours.

I've just uploaded a few videos from Telford and York (Sunday) here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamInvade/videos

I came to this and stayed the whole day it was awesome! Thank you to the Big Nipper team for having a chin wag with me!

All the robots were massively impressive in the flesh!!