Maker Faire

Big B: Team Late Night Racing

Cornholio: Team Wetware Ray Scully

Emily: Team Moon Billy Moon
Emily is a two-wheel drive, fully invertible uber-wedge. It competes both individually as a middleweight and as a super heavyweight multi-bot (with big-brother Gerald.) It's capable of running for an entire event without recharge or maintenance. Emily was designed to be super reliable, maintenance free and easy to replace. It's primary strategy is to use its custom 1/4" thick titanium "dingy plates" for brute force, with its massive wheel torque (designed to be effective against super heavyweights.)

Gerald & Emily: Team Moon Billy Moon
Gerald is powered by a two-wheel, gyroscopicly stabilized drive with a custom interchangeable gear box. It's a fully invertible drum bot that competes as both a heavyweight and as a superheavyweight multi-bot with little sister Emily. Gerald weighs in at 205 lbs or 335 lbs, depending on configuration. It's capable of running for two consecutive matches without any servicing. The 80 pound drum spins at 4000 rpm's with two 1.5"x1.5" S7 tool steel teeth. It's protected by 1/4" to 1/2" titanium with shock mounted 1" thick 4130 side deflectors and optional 5/8" thick coil-shock mounted AR-400 top armor (as protection against the Judge.)

Gerald: Team Moon Billy Moon
Gerald is powered by a two-wheel, gyroscopicly stabilized drive with a custom interchangeable gear box. It's a fully invertible drum bot that competes as both a heavyweight and as a superheavyweight multi-bot with little sister Emily. Gerald weighs in at 205 lbs or 335 lbs, depending on configuration. The 80 pound drum spins at 4000 rpm's with two 1.5"x1.5" S7 tool steel teeth. It's protected by 1/4" to 1/2" titanium with shock mounted 1" thick 4130 side deflectors and optional 5/8" thick coil-shock mounted AR-400 top armor.

Goosfraba: Team KillerBotics Dick Stuplich

Guillotine Kevin Lilly

Ice Cube: Team Toad Michael Mauldin
Ice Cube is the middle child of Team Toad's family of plow-bladed pushers: antweight Ice Chip, lightweight SnowFlake, middleweight Ice Cube, heavyweight FrostBite and superheavy Iceberg. Ice Cube's strategy is simplicity itself: be a linebacker and gain yards on the ground. Push em back. One of the oldest robots still competing, Ice Cube originally sported a spring steel hoop in the back to keep the plow blade firmly on the ground. In 2006 a complete redesign with a lowered center-of-gravity eliminated the hoop, increased traction and allowed Ice Cube to right itself after being inverted.

Iron Man: Team Wetware Ray Scully

Mitch: Team Hardcore Robotics Ray Billings

Original Sin: Late Night Racing Team Gary Gin
Original Sin was built as a joint effort of Team Piranha, Pizza Orgasmica, and Late Night Racing with the goal of making a strong, powerful and well handling combat bot. High traction tires driven by two 4.5HP electric motors give Original Sin the pushing power needed to make its abrasion resistant steel wedges effective against many types of bots including lifters, other wedges, and deadly spinners. Precise and aggressive driving is a key factor in Original Sin's success.

Pipe Wench: Team Plumb Crazy Wendy Maxham
Late one night in the Team PlumbCrazy workshop, things got a little freaky between Wipe Out #2 and Devil's Plunger - and Pipe Wench was conceived. Driven by Wendy (who gets discombobulated driving upside down,) Pipe Wench has the mobility of Devil's Plunger and the self-righting capability of Wipe Out #2. The self-righting mechanism has the added bonus of being able to throw opponents out of the arena! While Pipe Wench did not fare well at her first RoboGames in 2006 (1 win/2 losses), she came back stronger and wiser in 2007 to take the silver medal. As for the future, Pipe Wench has been shopping and is looking to accessorize better.

Pyromancer: Team KillerBotics Dick Stuplich

Relic: Team Moon Billy Moon

Rotato: Team Pandoras Bots Jason Maas
Pandora's Bots has been fighting robots out of Austin, TX since 2003. In the spring of 2004, they decided it was time to build the most destructive lightweight robot ever. Rotato was completely designed in CAD before a single part was bought or made. The design concept was clear, put as much weight into the weapon as possible. Having 45 of the 60 lbs in motors/batteries/titanium for the weapon system they did just that. With over 20 pounds of titanium spinning at 2500 RPM the sparks always fly with Rotato in the box.

Sewer Snake: Plumb Crazy Team Matt Maxham
Matt grew up 4-wheeling, and designed Sewer Snake to be extremely mobile with exterior wheels. The first version was 4-wheel drive and was originally going to have a drum weapon but switched to a wedge on the front. Matt enjoyed ths so much that the wedge evolved into a modular lifting system with red throwing fork. The 4-wheel drive version of Sewer Snake fought in four tournaments with a 10-6 record. The 6-wheel drive version of Sewer Snake debuted in 2004 Nationals and has been in 45 competition matches with only 7 losses in 9 tournaments in the US & UK

Spinnerbait Jr.: Teamxd

Texas Heat: Team CM Robotics Mark Demers
Texas Heat is armored in military grade Titanium, with a six foot flamethrower that roasts opponents. An onboard Texas Instruments MSP430 processor carefully controls the valve sequencing with millisecond timing to achieve the precise fuel to air ratio required for ignition. Custom electronics by Nuvation use TI High Performance Analog to generate the different power needed for the digital electronics, valves and igniter. Fuel is a propane/butane mix that is optimized for highest heat and luminance. Texas Heat can drive inverted on its solid rubber wheels, with 4 direct drive motors and a wedge on both the front and rear.

The Defyer: Syberon Robotics Team Martin O'Byrne
Team Syberon has been competing in combot robotics for the last 6 years. Power comes from 2 Mag Motors and the power source is from two 13ah Hawker batteries. The frame is 1-inch steel bolted to an Aluminum base with 1/4 inch HDPE polymer Plastic body plates. The Defyer's pneumatics are powered by high pressure air and can run between 250 psi up to 1000 psi.

Vlad the Impaler II: Team ComBots ComBots / RoboGames
Gage Cauchois had great success at BattleBots with his first robot, Vlad the Impaler, one of the most powerful drivetrains in the sport.

Vladiator: Team Moon Billy Moon
Vladiator is Team Moon Robotics' newest Super Heavyweight, winning the BattleBots Super Heavyweight Championship in 2001 and placing Runner Up in 2002. The weapons are all powered by twin 4"x4" pneumatic cylinders from a 3000 PSI HPA system which can lift over half a ton at the tip. The Flame Cannon is capable of burning a hole through 1/4" of Aluminum at 2 ft.

Warsaw: Team Pandoras Bots Damien Ramirez
Originally born as a drawing on a napkin, Warsaw is the grizzled veteran of Team Pandora's Bots robotic assault. Spinning drums, spinning disks, hammers, flippers, wedges, Warsaw has fought them all. Warsaw uses a 2 ft. diameter aluminum spinning disk with hardened S7 tool steel teeth to deliver thundering punishment on its opponents in the middleweight division. As with all robots operated by the Pandora's Bots tandem of Damian Ramirez and Jason Maas, Warsaw's basic premise is to bring the pain all the time, every time. The wins will take care of themselves.

Ziggy: CM Robotics Team Mark Demers
All external armor and the weapon assembly are built from Military grade Titanium, with the weapon system pushing with a peak thrust of 14,000 lbs! Weapon control is managed by a freescale 9RS08 microprocessor (Implementation by Nuvation), which produces variable thrust capability, depending on user input. In most situations, smaller "jabs" are used for control and conserving stored pressure, but a full powered flip can launch a 340 lb competitor into the arena ceiling!