Inspiration/innovation in weaponry

**adamclark** · 14th March 2017, 14:49

Apparently to give new robot designs a chance. Plus increase in weight for shufflers and walkers. I imagine using entanglement is more likely to stop drums as you can only use a metre of rope/chain/Kevlar etc. But probably still useful against spinners. RW wants more innovative weaponry, like robots that pick up other robots and use them as shields or have pneumatic spikes and can invalidate Newtonian physics.

**overkill** · 14th March 2017, 20:37

Originally Posted by adamclark

Apparently to give new robot designs a chance. Plus increase in weight for shufflers and walkers. I imagine using entanglement is more likely to stop drums as you can only use a metre of rope/chain/Kevlar etc. But probably still useful against spinners. RW wants more innovative weaponry, like robots that pick up other robots and use them as shields or have pneumatic spikes and can invalidate Newtonian physics.

Do you have a link for that?

**Black-Tie Knife Fight** · 4th September 2016, 23:09

Despite it being all metal and wires, that would still be really gross to watch, Adam. I don't know why.

Craig, I'm really looking forward to showing it off, whether it is a success or a glorious failure. It's hard talking about it and being aware that going in to too much technical detail will perhaps upset my building buddies, not to mention show up my woeful engineering parlance. We're all just really excited and keen to get involved and meet people.

**Andy** · 4th September 2016, 23:41

Adam that would be the coolest thing ever, build it :P horrible weapon to be on the receiving end of though if it is anywhere near effective, lipo fires every fight etc haha

**R9000** · 5th September 2016, 00:18

Can't help but imagine intentionally shorting the opponent is in violation of some rule, like the 'Invisible Damage' rule. Perhaps it isn't, but also, how would you get the wires in? You'd have to make a hole in most robots, surely.

**adamclark** · 5th September 2016, 01:41

Originally Posted by R9000

Can't help but imagine intentionally shorting the opponent is in violation of some rule, like the 'Invisible Damage' rule. Perhaps it isn't, but also, how would you get the wires in? You'd have to make a hole in most robots, surely.

I think it would be quite visible, I also expect that most have some kind of opening. For sure where the wheels are, those spinners all seem to have a nice open hole with gears and belts exposed as well

**Black-Tie Knife Fight** · 5th September 2016, 00:31

I don't know, if you managed to get in and chew up a robots innards, it may well be ungentlemanly but it is still visible damage, just internal. I've dreamt of a heavyweight robot with a mini bot using a spinner that you could spin up on board the main robot and deploy under a flipper in to its innards if it missed the shot.

Very much pie in the sky but it would be cool.