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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread

« on: July 26, 2016, 11:12:17 AM »

Was just having a quick read through this thread- and have only a couple of points to make.

Firstly we had an absolutely amazing time filming the show- there were some truly excellent fights and robots such as Nuts really had the roboteers supporting them backstage.

Also with regards to spoilers for the Grand Final I can confidently say that some of the fights shown are not part of the main competition. There were a good number of whiteboard fights which were also filmed (we even fought in a couple). So don't worry or look into the clips too much :)

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Robots Showcase / Re: Team Shock

« on: May 01, 2015, 11:48:59 AM »

I'll try and upload the beetles and ants over the weekend.

I was hoping to have Inertia B and Soundwave at Burgess but both needed work and I didn't manage to get time- I'm looking at the options of turning my proposed ant event in August into a Beetleweight one so there might be a dedicated event for them yet :)

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Robots Showcase / Team Shock

« on: April 30, 2015, 08:48:41 AM »

Hi Guys,

I know a few of you on here and many may well know my robots. I'm Will from Team Shock (and Shockbots.co.uk). We have robots in pretty much every weight class at the moment so I thought I'd give some details on the ones we currently have

Heavyweights



Manta
Weight- 95kg
Length- 850mm
Width- 750mm
Height- 400mm
Chassis/ armour- 4mm Hardox 400 all over
Drive- 2x Bosch 750's with home made gearboxes
ESC- Wotty 360
Batteries- 4x 4s LiFe packs to give 8s2p
Weapon- Full Pressure CO2 flipper with a 100mm bore, 150mm stroke ram with twin buffer tanks
Awards: Best Heavyweight Newcomer 2013, European Championships 2nd 2013, UK Championships 2nd & 3rd 2013/2014, Robot Wars Winter Tour Champion 2013 and Robots Live Whitwick Champion 2015

Maelstrom
Weight- 100kg
Length- 1100mm
Width- 800mm
Height- 350mm
Chassis/ armour- 3mm Raex & 20mm HDPE
Drive- 2x Bosch 750's with home made gearboxes
ESC- Wotty 360
Batteries- 4x 8s A123 packs
Weapon- Full Pressure CO2 double flipper with a 75mm bore, 150mm stroke ram
Awards: Best Heavyweight Newcomer 2008, UK Championships 2nd (2009 & 2012) 4th (2010, Winner of 2 Robot Wars Events and 3 Robots Live Events

Shockwave (coming soon)


Weight- 100kg
Length- 750mm
Width- 750mm
Height- 450mm
Chassis/ armour- 3mm Raex
Drive- 2x unknown motors
ESC- Roboteq
Batteries- 4x 4s LiFe packs to give 8s2p
Weapon- Low Pressure CO2 Axe (and possibly flipper) with a 100mm bore 300mm stroke axe ram with accellerating linkage and twin 63mm bore 150mm stroke flipper rams

Still a work in progress but may see an arena this year.

Current featherweights:

Beauty 8
Weight- 13.6kg
Length- 500mm
Width- 400mm
Height- 250mm
Chassis/ armour- Titanium Bar
Drive- 2x Speed 900s
ESC- TZ85a
Batteries- 6s Lipo
Weapon- Full Pressure CO2 flipper with a 60mm bore, 80mm stroke ram
Awards: UK Championships 2nd 2014, World Championships 3rd 2015

Stingray
Weight- 9kg
Length- 250mm
Width- 450mm
Height- 120mm
Chassis/ armour- 4mm Hardox 400 all over
Drive- 2x HTI motors with mini EV gearboxes (soon to be upgraded to our new 'ShockboX' gearmotors
ESC- Sidewinder
Batteries- 6s LiPo
Weapon- Flail tail and pushing power

We have a new feather in the pipeline as well which will be the prototype of the new Shockbots Feather Kit

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Modifications / Re: Robot Wars RA2 - OFFICIAL MOD

« on: March 29, 2015, 07:07:49 AM »

Hi Guys,

I'm Will from Team Shock (Builder and driver of Manta, Maelstrom etc..) I was just sent a link to this thread and wanted to say that you are doing a damn good job so far with the replica's I was incredibly impressed by the ones for my robots and look forward to getting to try them out in the game :)

Good luck with the rest and once I finally get our new axe machine ready I might have to get you to replicate it as well :)