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Year 2009

 

Rate RoboGames Land at San Francisco This Weekend

Original at Singularity Hub external link    Thu, Jun 11

 CA Robot fighting was made popular a few years back by the now defunct television show BattleBots. The entrants (robots only, humans stay outside) are locked in a cage made of bulletproof glass and are let to tear each other apart. The last robot that is ...

Rate Robo death match

Original at Daily 49er external link    Mon, Apr 20

 CA Lanza and other CSULB senior electronics engineering technology majors are looking to avenge the 2005 death of Stingray in this week's BattleBots Collegiate Championship — a fight-to-the-death tournament for robots — with a retooled fighter named ...

Rate Robot Monkey World Chimpionship

Original at Decider New York external link    Wed, Apr 15

 NY Remember Robot Wars? That television show in the ‘90s that pitted heavily armored robots against one another in a robot arena? Or BattleBots, which is sort of the same thing? Now take those faded memories and engage in an act of visualization: Remove ...

Rate BattleBots Finalizes Deal with CBS Collegiate Sports Network - PR-USA.net

Original at pr-usa.net external link    Sun, Apr 12

BattleBots Inc., the company that created the innovative, world-renowned and wildly entertaining robot combat TV show, has finalized a deal with the CBS College Sports Network (CBSC) to air the BattleBots Collegiate Championship during their primetime ...

Rate BattleBots Finalizes Deal with CBS Collegiate Sports Network - PR.com

Original at PR.com external link    Sat, Apr 11

The BattleBots Collegiate Championship will be filmed the week of April 20-26 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California. Teams from prestigious colleges and universities will be attending from all over the US and Puerto Rico. These “bot ...

Rate Mythbuster at Clarkson

Original at Clarkson Integrator external link    Mon, Apr 6

 NY It was during his time with ILM that Imahara made appearances on Junkyard Wars and Comedy Central's BattleBots. Throughout these endeavors Imahara received persistent encouragement from Jamie Hyneman to join the Mythbusters team. ...

Rate Mythbusters’ Grant Imahara at Clarkson University Saturday - Clarkson University News

Original at Clarkson University News external link    Mon, Mar 30

For fun, Grant has competed in Comedy Central’s BattleBots with his robot "Deadblow," which he designed and built. Deadblow won two Middleweight Rumbles and was the Middleweight runner-up in 2000. It set a record for most number of hits in the first ...

Rate Yellow Breeches students to compete in 'BattleBots'

Original at Carlisle Sentinel external link    Fri, Mar 27

 PA Sgt. Die Blase, whose name comes from the German word for “bubble,” will travel with the club to Vallejo, Calif., April 21-26 for the first televised “BattleBots” competition since 2002. The competition pits two remote-controlled robots of comparable ...

Rate Eagles build a better robot

Original at Issaquah Press external link    Mon, Mar 23

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 WA Teams then enter competitions — like the regional event in Portland — form alliances and attempt to prove that their robot can outperform the rest. Think “BattleBots” without as much mayhem and destruction. Since the Issaquah team was created in 2004, ...

Rate Rise of the Machines: RoboGames Gears Up for 2009 [Slide Show]

Original at Scientific American external link    Mon, Mar 23

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This style of metallic carnage has grown popular over the past 15 years, most famously on TV shows like Comedy Central's BattleBots, which ran from 2000 to 2002 (and may return on ESPN soon). Veterans of that series, such as Vladiator and The Judge, ...

Rate UI open houses feature 'MythBuster,' bugs, Indiana Jones

Original at Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette external link    Mon, Mar 9

 IL A robot designed and built by him was ranked number one in Season 3.0 on Comedy Central's "BattleBots." He also authored the book "Kickin' Bot: An Illustrated Guide to Building Combat Robots." Free tickets to Imahara's event may be picked up from the ...

Rate Preparing for a robotic battle royal

Original at Hackensack Chronicle external link    Wed, Feb 18

 NJ - Robotics entered pop culture in 1997, when cable television first aired "BattleBots," a program that featured homemade and remote controlled robots that ...

Rate Mythbuster to reveal backstage scoop at BU

Original at Binghamton University Pipe Dream external link    Mon, Feb 16

  USA - He has also created his own robot, “Deadblow,” to compete in the BattleBots competition, which he won. He wrote a book on robot creation called “Kickin’ ...

Rate How the tables have turned - on each other

Original at Brown Daily Herald external link    Thu, Feb 12

 RI If the concept sounds a lot like Comedy Central's one-time hit robot fighting show BattleBots, well, it is. After six long weeks in the workroom, the four tables were ready for battle - and to captivate the crowd with their entertaining fighting ...

Rate Showdown of robot skills 'pretty cool'

Original at StarPhoenix external link    Fri, Jan 16

 Canada - in a showdown of their robot-building skills. Rather than having their androids fight to the finish along the lines of the TV show, BattleBots, ...

Year 2008

 

Rate GHS Battle Bots Fight Valiantly

Original at Germantown Now external link    Fri, Nov 28

 WI - Nov 28, 2008 Similar to the BattleBots show commonly seen on Television, one team, coached by Technology and Engineering teacher Tim Mehring, created a sturdy bot with a ...

Rate Interview by EDWARD LEWINE

Original at New York Times external link    Fri, Nov 21

 United States - Hobby: Well, I did BattleBots for many years. It’sa competition in which remote-controlled robots fight one another. I’ve built more than 10 of those robots ...

Rate New York Times - Interesting facts about Will Wright « Sporedum

Original at Sporedum external link    Fri, Nov 21

Hobby: Well, I did BattleBots for many years. It’s a competition in which remote-controlled robots fight one another. I’ve built more than 10 of those robots. Fitness routine: I broke my arm last year. Occasionally, I’ll do weights to ...

Rate Worst of the Week: Me and my robot friends

Original at RCRNews.com external link    Thu, Nov 13

 CO - Nov 13, 2008 And, while I am not a fan of baseball, more of a BattleBots pen-robot mutant myself, this claim of mixed martial-arts having more viewers than the World ...

Rate BattleBots.com

Original at The Bots are Back! external link    Tue, Nov 4

The High School Division, BattleBots Building Rules are ready for download. The April 2009 event will not only host the best Pro and College robot teams, But also High School teams from around the country. ...

Rate Mythbusters interview, part one

Original at MAKE Magazine external link    Mon, Nov 3

By Patti Schiendelman He had run into us years before on an unrelated story with us - it was to do with Robot Wars and BattleBots. There was a robot that we had built that was notorious; he'd interviewed us about that and later on remembered us. ...

Rate Schools signing up teams to build battlin' robots for Cal U ...

Original at Pittsburgh Post Gazette external link    Sat, Oct 25

Schools signing up teams to build battlin' robots for Cal U ...  PA - Oct 25, 2008 The goal of the robots is to finish each other off. Parts fly. This competition was based on the cable television show, "BattleBots. ...

Rate DualVee, Meet Blendo

Original at pddnet.com external link    Tue, Oct 21

Product Design & Development, NJ - Oct 21, 2008 Blendo’s opponents at San Francisco’s Robot Wars and Comedy Central’s BattleBots quickly learned that hitting a spinning object means your weapon is going ...

Rate Motion Control Industry News - DualVee, meet Blendo

Original at MotionControl.com external link    Wed, Oct 15

Blendo's opponents at San Francisco's Robot Wars and Comedy Central's BattleBots quickly learned that hitting a spinning object means your weapon is going to fly. Battles with Blendo ended in mere seconds, and soon, Hyneman's robot was ...

Rate <b>BattleBots</b>, Blendo and DualVee

Original at Design World Online external link    Wed, Oct 15

Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman used BWC's bearings in building his unstoppable robot.

Rate Go behind-the-scenes with Grant Imahara from ‘Mythbusters’

Original at Terre Haute Tribune Star external link    Thu, Oct 9

 IN - Oct 9, 2008 He even built the combat robot “Deathblow” for the show “BattleBots.” That resumé fits well on “Mythbusters,” where his duties range from technical to ...

Rate ISobot: “I So Smawl”

Original at Botropolis external link    Wed, Sep 17

By Matthew Bilyeu Last Wednesday we told you about Caterpillar and Carnegie Mellon University’s plans to build a friggen 700 ton dump truck robot. In the interest of unbalanced fights we’d love to see iSobot vs. Giant RoboTruck on BattleBots. ...

Rate Robot fights set to smack-down in Texas | NetworkWorld.com Community

Original at NetworkWorld.com external link    Wed, Sep 17

By Layer 8 That may change one day if ComBots could become the NASCAR of the robot fighting world. There have been other attempts to develop robot fighting into a national pastime. Robot Wars and the BattleBots TV shows among them, Calkins noted. ...

Rate RoboGames 2007: BattleBots robot combat crowd

Original at vimeo.com external link    Sat, Sep 6

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Rate MAKE: Blog: Build a 60-pound combat robot at TechShop Menlo Park

Original at MAKE Magazine external link    Sat, Sep 6

By Phillip Torrone Jim writes in with a cool upcoming class @ TechShop... Most makers love to watch combat robots fight to the death on shows like RoboGames, BattleBots, and Robot Wars. The folks at TechShop in Menlo Park, California, are conducting...

Rate SolidWorks ::

Original at SolidWorks external link    Tue, Sep 2

Created from the popular TV show BattleBots, the BattleBots IQ competition featured a series of task-oriented, fully autonomous challenges culminating in the head-to-head knockout competition for 15- and 120-pound robot classes. ...

Rate Mama Joules: BattleBots

Original at Mama Joules external link    Sun, Aug 24

By jublke BattleBots fans, rejoice! The dueling robot competition show, which last aired on American television in 2002, is due for a comeback. According to this article in Popular Mechanics, this new version of robot wars will focus strictly on ...

Rate Stellar <b>Robot</b> Saturn Rises Sans Rings

Original at Botropolis external link    Tue, Aug 19

By Matthew Bilyeu Swarm had eight small autonomous helicopters that worked together to take multi-angle pictures of threats and targets. It’s pretty clear now that WW2045 really will be a glorified episode of BattleBots. ...

Rate RoboGames 2008: BattleBots Greatest Hits Video | Great White Snark

Original at Great White Snark external link    Mon, Jun 16

One Response to “RoboGames 2008: BattleBots Greatest Hits Video”. Wavatar nickolai Says: June 16th, 2008 at 9:52 pm. Sweet! I wonder how many Jar Jar action figures met their melty ends in order to perfect that flame thrower bot. ...

Rate Return of the <b>BattleBots</b>

Original at TIME: Real Clear Politics external link    Tue, Mar 18

I'll watch, though I don't know that I'll really feel the sport has reached maturity until the competitors are fully autonomous rather than remote-controlled. And of course at the end the winning bot should be rewarded with the ...

Rate <b>BattleBots</b> headed to an ESPN near you — now with less suck

Original at SCABR.COM external link    Fri, Mar 14

By Paul Miller Maybe we'll never know how Comedy Central could run a show like "BattleBots" and not have it be the greatest thing ever. Lucky for us, the concept is getting another shot at life thanks to the fine folks at ESPN 2 and ESPNU. ...

Rate Bow to Your Robot Overlords: ‘BattleBots’ Is Returning! -- Vulture ...

Original at New York Magazine external link    Fri, Mar 14

The magazine has a great feature on the resurrection of BattleBots; the show is returning to television, on ESPN now instead of its poorly suited former network, Comedy Central. Though BattleBots will miss its onetime host, ...

Rate BattleBots headed to an ESPN near you -- now with less suck - Engadget

Original at Engadget external link    Fri, Mar 14

Seriously dude, how can you complain about the arena hazards in BattleBots when Robot Wars had way more (especially those stupid pits that meant you automatically lost) and those stupid "House Robots." I enjoyed BattleBots quite a bit, ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Area teams face off at BattleBots IQ showdown

Original at Meadville Tribune external link    Sun, May 6

Jeff Judd never dreamed that he’d be designing a robot for a local competition. When his team, the Spin Masters, were victorious in the final round of the competition, Judd knew that all of his team’s dedication was well worth it.

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