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RoboGames Land at San Francisco This Weekend

11 Jun 2009 08:43:27 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Singularity Hub .

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Robo death match

20 Apr 2009 20:55:45 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Daily 49er .

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Robot Monkey World Chimpionship

15 Apr 2009 14:00:51 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Decider New York .

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

12 Apr 2009 03:31:27 PDT

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 ...

Original story at pr-usa.net .

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

11 Apr 2009 01:03:00 PDT

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 ...

Original story at PR.com .

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

30 Mar 2009 10:31:34 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Clarkson University News .

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BattleBots news and blogs - February 26, 2010

26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit BattleBots news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Mythbuster at Clarkson -- from Clarkson Integrator
• New attractions to lure visitors at Miami-Dade County Fair ... -- from MiamiHerald.com
• Analyzing What Robots Tell Us About Human Nature: A Q&A with Will ... -- from Scientific American
• Preparing for a robotic battle royal -- from Hackensack Chronicle
• How the tables have turned - on each other -- from The Brown Daily Herald
• GHS Battle Bots Fight Valiantly -- from Germantown Now
• BattleBots.com -- from The Bots are Back!
• OHS students working to enter FIRST Robotics competition -- from Oneida Dispatch
• DualVee, Meet Blendo -- from Product Design & Development
• Go behind-the-scenes with Grant Imahara from ‘Mythbusters’ -- from Terre Haute Tribune Star

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Yellow Breeches students to compete in 'BattleBots'

27 Mar 2009 09:08:22 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Carlisle Sentinel .

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Eagles build a better robot

23 Mar 2009 22:56:32 PDT

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, ...

Original story at Issaquah Press .

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

23 Mar 2009 09:27:01 PDT

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, ...

Original story at Scientific American .

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

09 Mar 2009 07:15:42 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette .

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Mythbuster to reveal backstage scoop at BU

16 Feb 2009 16:07:16 PST

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’ ...

Original story at Binghamton University Pipe Dream .

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Showdown of robot skills 'pretty cool'

16 Jan 2009 08:31:35 PST

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, ...

Original story at StarPhoenix .

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Interview by EDWARD LEWINE

21 Nov 2008 21:20:02 PST

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 ...

Original story at New York Times .

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New York Times - Interesting facts about Will Wright « Sporedum

21 Nov 2008 16:15:53 PST

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 ...

Original story at Sporedum .

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Worst of the Week: Me and my robot friends

13 Nov 2008 10:07:07 PST

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 ...

Original story at RCRNews.com .

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Mythbusters interview, part one

03 Nov 2008 07:00:00 PST

Written 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. ...

Original story at MAKE Magazine .

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

25 Oct 2008 21:26:27 PDT

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. ...

Original story at Pittsburgh Post Gazette .

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Motion Control Industry News - DualVee, meet Blendo

15 Oct 2008 09:32:14 PDT

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 ...

Original story at MotionControl.com .

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

15 Oct 2008 04:10:57 PDT

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

Original story at Design World Online .

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

17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Written 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. ...

Original story at NetworkWorld.com .

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SolidWorks ::

02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

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. ...

Original story at SolidWorks .

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RoboGames 2008: BattleBots Greatest Hits Video | Great White Snark

16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT

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. ...

Original story at Great White Snark .

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

14 Mar 2008 05:10:00 PDT

Written 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. ...

Original story at SCABR.COM .

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

14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PDT

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, ...

Original story at New York Magazine .

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

14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PDT

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, ...

Original story at Engadget .

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RoboGames Land at San Francisco This Weekend

Robo death match

Robot Monkey World Chimpionship

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

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

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

BattleBots news and blogs - February 26, 2010

Yellow Breeches students to compete in 'BattleBots'

Eagles build a better robot

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

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

Mythbuster to reveal backstage scoop at BU

Showdown of robot skills 'pretty cool'

Interview by EDWARD LEWINE

New York Times - Interesting facts about Will Wright « Sporedum

Worst of the Week: Me and my robot friends

Mythbusters interview, part one

Schools signing up teams to build battlin&#39; robots for Cal U ...

Motion Control Industry News - DualVee, meet Blendo

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

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

SolidWorks ::

RoboGames 2008: BattleBots Greatest Hits Video | Great White Snark

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

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

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

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