The All Out Robot Rebellion

**matt_macdonald** · 27th August 2005, 18:56

Guess whos back at the writers desk for the first time in practically a year!

Ok, heres how it works, vapourbots, real robots, and house robots are going to be competing here.

I need 8 people to enter a team of three robots (1 vapourbot, 1 real robot, 1 house robot). First come first serve basis, the real robots can be from any Robot Wars Series, but the House Robots have to be from the latest series (Series 7). Any stats are acceptable for vapourbots, but they must be as realistic as possible, no sheer magic stuff.

I would like to get this tournament quickly going as soon as possible, so get those entries in soon!

ROUND 1:
8 x 3-way melees -- Vapourbot vs. Real Robot vs. House Robot in each melee. 1 robot survives in each melee to move on to round 2.

ROUND 2:
4 x 1-on-1 battles -- 8 machines will be going into this round, only 4 will survive.

ROUND 3:
2 x 1-on-1 battles -- Semi-Finals, basically.

ROUND 4:
Third place playoff and final.

**siphai** · 27th August 2005, 19:18

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Cosmic Thunder 2

Robot Concept - Low wedge leading up to a flipper
Mass - 100 kg
Weapons - A really nice flipper.
Can it self-right - Yes
Velocity - 16 mph
Turning Circle - 0
Ground clearance - 0 at the front, 0.5 mm at the sides, 0 at the back
Skirts - Side and back skirts
Wheel Type - 6 inch wheels
Motors - Two magmotors geared for torque
Body Shape - Reshaped like Voltronic
Armour - 6 mm Titanium skirts, 9 mm Lexan on the front.
Colour - Spacey

Summary - Well flip you then some?
Strengths - Its extremely low to the ground coupled with a flipper. Also can run upside down if the flipper cops out.
Weaknesses - Its armor isnt all that good.

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/4296/cosmicthunder2open4bn.jpg http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/4...er2open4bn.jpg
http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/9910/cosmicthunder2open22fm.jpghttp://img353.imageshack.us/img353/9...r2open22fm.jpg

For a real robot, Ill go ahead and take Tough as Nails. For a House Robot, Ill go with Dead Metal.

**matty_haka** · 27th August 2005, 19:30

...erm...

Smash-Up At The Bar (Stats up in a min)
Gravity
Growler

**andrewj** · 27th August 2005, 19:33

Vapour: Wedga Revo (Version 2.0)
Real: Storm II
House Robot: Shunt

Wedga Revo (Version 2.0)

Shape: A cut off wedge like Steg 2, instead of the wedged front these is now a scoop that the lifting arm rests inside in its normal position. The sides and back are all slightly slanted to deflect spinners.
Dimensions: 800mm x 700mm x 150mm (Length x Width x Height)
Motivation: Driving Wedga Revo are six Aluminum hubs with a layer of Vullkolan bonded on for extra grip on the arena surface, these are 140mm in diameter and 50mm in width.
Drive: Driving the wheels are two LEM130 Lynch Motors run on 48v from a 3300mAh NiCad botpack. This gives approximately 18hp that should out push quite a few robots and makes a great combination with the front scoop. The robot is under the control of a Vantec speed controller meaning the power is all controlled and put to good use.
Speed: Wedga Revo can reach a top speed of about 15mph so itâ‚¬â„¢s nice and controlled and has a decent acceleration to top speed.
Turning Circle: Wedga Revo uses a skid steering system like Tornado so that it can turn on the spot but maybe not as well as two wheel drive robots.
Ground Clearance: There is around 10mm of clearance all around the robot minus the front scoop that rests along the ground so it can get under virtually anything, the sides and back are skirted and rest together at the corners giving it 0mm clearance all the way around the robot.
Skirts: The skirts are made of 5mm thick Grade 5 Titanium and are hinged to the sides and back of the robot by a rotary joint, the skirts all meet at the corners meaning it is very hard to get under the robot from any angle.
Armour: The baseplate is constructed of 5mm thick Aluminum, that should protect the bottom if for any reason another robot manages to flip and attack the bottom. The front scoop is made of 3.2mm thick Hardox that is very hard to bend of shatter if not impossible. This is used for deflecting spinner attacks and general scooping up and pushing around. The top, sides and back are all made of 6mm thick Grade 5 Titanium that are all bolted onto the 50mm Hardox box section chassis.
Weapons: The main weapon is a flipping arm that is hinged at the rear of the robot and rests down the wedge and inside the front scoop so if a spinner hits the front scoop the arm should not be damaged. The flipping arm is 100mm wide and is made of Grade 5 Titanium and is shaped like the scoop at the front so it can flip any robots on the front scoop easily. It is powered by a big 80mm bore 100mm stroke custom-made Aluminum ram. This is pumped with CO2 gas at a pressure of 150psi contained in two 2.2kg canisters and a 1.1kg buffer tank giving around 35 flips in a fight. This should mean the flipper can produce around 540kgs of force each flip that should send other robots flying! This set up can comfortably flip 400kg so any heavyweight class robot should not be too much of a problem. The front scoop/rear skirt and drive train are also a great way of ramming robots around the arena and can work well with the flipper for flipping robots out of the arena.
Self-Righting Mechanism: The flipper can self-right the robot with ease with stylish jumps off the ground.
Notes: An almost unchanged version, just with a modified bodywork.

(Message edited by andrewj on August 27, 2005)

27th August 2005, 19:49

Vapour: Cyberdemon
Stats: http://farr.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=Hitmen&action=display&thread=11228 28490http://farr.proboards21.com/index.cg...thread=1122828 490
Realie: Spawn Again
House Robot: Sgt. Bash

**steven_mcg** · 27th August 2005, 20:01

TEAM BRAVEHEART

1) Killotine: EVO
2) Chaos 2 (RW Ex 2)
3) Mr Psycho

STATS: http://thdcrobotics.proboards33.com/index.cgi?board=Bravehearthttp://thdcrobotics.proboards33.com/...ard=Braveheart

That should suffice...but I have to ask - are vapour House Robots allowed?

**siphai** · 27th August 2005, 20:04

Thats what I thought at first Steve, I was going to create this awesome House Robot with Rhino, but then I read that Hose Robots had to be from Series 7.

**matt_macdonald** · 27th August 2005, 20:26

Sorry Steve, vapour House Robots arent allowed. :sad:

1 -- Cosmic Thunder 2 Alex M & W
2 -- Tough As Nails
3 -- Dead Metal
4 -- Smash-Up At The Bar (Stats Needed) Matt Fowler
5 -- Gravity
6 -- Growler
7 -- Wedga Revo Andy
8 -- Storm 2
9 -- Shunt
10 -- Cyberdemon Anthony
11 -- Spawn Again
12 -- Sgt. Bash
13 -- Killotine:EVO Steven
14 -- Chaos 2
15 -- Mr. Psycho

5 spots already gone, 3 more entries needed!