BBC Robot Wars

13th January 2016, 18:29

Done

**orac** · 13th January 2016, 20:39

I received an email to my robot website about the new series from Mentorn today.

Had a look at Orac and Orac's Revenge sitting in the garage, looking in a very poor state. Will probably have to make something new, but 2 months is a very tight timescale, not sure if I could build anything presentable

Pete

**ady** · 13th January 2016, 21:22

2 months, that's not long at all

**TeamPsyclone** · 13th January 2016, 21:34

Yeah, I feel there's gonna be a lot of glued togethers, I can only hope it'll make for more interesting designs than just flippers, flippers and the occasional spike. I know I'm going to try to create something vaguely interesting, though I only have a old flipper chassis so that might be a pain

**james...venom** · 14th January 2016, 08:38

Hi Guys

As mentioned if you would like to apply please email robotwars@mentorn.tv and you will receive it. The weight has been increased to allow people to make their robots unique and interesting, not for hardox... As you can imagine we have lots of applications and limited spaces. With so many flippers being around its imperative that your robot is as unique and interesting as possible.

The BBC have also launched the Official facebook page for Robot Wars (no other pages are to do with the show) which can be found here. Please like, share and talk on here

https://www.facebook.com/BBC-Robot-W...7507380080282/

Once again thank you all so much for your support. Its a very bright future indeed if all goes well.

**Garfie489** · 14th January 2016, 09:08

Originally Posted by james...venom

The weight has been increased to allow people to make their robots unique and interesting, not for hardox...

You know what, thats near the exact wording on mentorns documents from when they increased the weight limit to 100kg - worked brilliantly :P

**james...venom** · 14th January 2016, 09:24

At the moment unfortunately due to the arenas available there are quite a number of flippers because they are very effective. As they are all well designed and streamlined we know they wont have weight to make their robots unique without making big changes or starting again. With the short time scales available, the 110kg limit allows teams to make additions to their robot to improve them which is more feasible.

**ady** · 14th January 2016, 10:32

Hope their not bringing back the original house robots that would be a bit pants.
Their a lot of talk on social media saying bring back razer and hypnodisc, but I don't think old fans realise how much robots have evolved.

14th January 2016, 11:04

Being a newbie team, maybe next year. A few events to get things going and make sure DUMBLE and ACE are up to to the level for the heavy weight class. Good luck to you teams participating

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