Robot Wars returns on Sunday 24th July

[razer121]

Looking forward to this. Razer was always good but I remember when Hypno-disc first appeared and took quite a few robots apart.

Pretty certain razer is back, i remember reading a post of theirs (i follow them) and they said they are back so.....now just waiting for hypnodisk

[virtuo]

Pretty certain razer is back, i remember reading a post of theirs (i follow them) and they said they are back so.....now just waiting for hypnodisk

Razer are in, from Lanky123's link:

Behemoth
Bonk
Carbide
Kill-E-Crank-E
Nuts
Razer
Terrorhurtz
The General
Chimera
Disconstructor
Draven
Foxic
M.R Speed Squared
Shockwave
Thor
Tough as Nails
Big Nipper
Dantomkia
Glitterbomb
King B Remix
Orte
Overdozer
Supernova
TR2
Apollo
Eruption
Kan-Opener
PP3D
Sabretooth
Storm 2
Sweeney Todd
Terror Turtle
Beast
Chompalot
Crazy Coupe 88
Gabriel
Infernal Contraption
Ironside 3
Pulsar
Thermidor 2

[EndlessWaves]

Also, despite the lack of a mention in the article and video itself, I hope Sgt. Bash is back as a House Robot too. I can't say that I'm bothered by the lack of mentions for Mr. Psycho or Growler, I never liked those robots.

Looks like just those four. Refbot and that channel 5 one got dumped too. I'm not too bothered about sergeant bash, he never worked that well, but it's a shame that Killalot is back instead of being replaced with something a bit less silly looking.

On the brighter side, Jonathan Pearce is returning as commentator.

[Tonka777]

As for the tease of a robot from the original series' competing, I'm thinking Chaos 2, Razer or Behemoth.

That moment when you realise some of the robots are now Hexus members!

[g8ina]

Excellent

Dave Rose was a mate of mine in the UK astro imaging forum, Hypnodisc driver.

Cant wait

[Corky34]

Glad to see Chaos 2 not competing, no offense intended, it was a great robot but flipping can get a bit boring to watch after a while, especially when your robot is that good at it, I'd much prefer to watch robots being smashed, crushed, squashed, and all those nasty things than flip, flip, flip, ohh it's stopped working.

[cflymo]

Shame about the commentator, he always got on my wick, but I'm looking forward to this nonetheless - essential viewing in my younger days! I have endless admiration for the time, dedication and sheer ingenuity of all the roboteers.

[g8ina]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...e-house-robots

Worth a watch, House Bots are four of the old school, Killalot, Matilda, Shunt, and Dead metal. New heavier weights are just ridiculous !

[=assassin=]

I'm really looking forwards to this! Cheers for the info on the date and time Hexus!

[Xlucine]

Possibly they're being a bit cautious of the flamethrower-equipped house robots until they've seen what the modern competitors are capable of? Who knows what modern batteries/materials will allow in terms of breaking things apart and lobbing them out of the arena...

It seems there is a list of robots taking part; several familiar names on there.

Lithium batteries over the fire grates sounds like great fun to watch!

[TooNice]

I wonder if they've also raised the weight limit of the participants.

I never looked at the rules, but I assume that there are limits otherwise someone could just build a big steamroller and crush everything

Or, in the spirit of the "robot" aspect, bring on of those in the arena

[Gerrard]

I looked into the rules many years ago when I was thinking of entering and there was a 100kg weight limit.

It will be interesting how they tackle the issues of Li-ion batteries as they don't like being crushed or heated >70°C. Will be good to watch them go up though!

[TooNice]

Were li-ion not used / available back then? I could have sworn that they were available in laptops even back then.. as an expensive upgrade (or in top of the range model).

[Xlucine]

I looked into the rules many years ago when I was thinking of entering and there was a 100kg weight limit.

It will be interesting how they tackle the issues of Li-ion batteries as they don't like being crushed or heated >70°C. Will be good to watch them go up though!

There's a robot wars wiki (of course) which claims a 110kg weight limit for robots, with 135kg for walkers

[Bone9]

Sweet! I'm all over this

[mojothejester]

Can not wait. Been watching some recent battlebots to tide me over, some of them robots are awesome