Series 7 auditions
Yet another new robot was built for series 7,driven by 2 cim wheelchair motors(supplied by roger plant)
it was a full body flipper with the 3 sided shovel at the front and a pneumatic claw above, it all run off low pressure
Co2.
We made the journey down to nottingham and did the usual tech checks and were ok to play.
Four robots entered the arena and I recall TAN (tough as nails) was one of them, we quickly got stuck on the
arena floor due to lack of traction and found our Co2 had frozen in the tank pipe so we had no flipper,the
only thing working was the claw so we tried pecking the floor like a bird to free ourselves-without success.
TAN came along and managed to nudge us and we were off again,after a wizz round -it seemed to be all over
-I think we were the last robot moving.
We removed our robots from the arena and the producer said "that was boring guys"-after pleading
that our robot should have been so much better ie lack of traction and flipper not working,he seemed
happy to give us another chance on the show itself(series 7)