Re: Now that's a Robot Show! "Robot Rivals"
 

If you don't want to wait to see how Lehrbaum's team does, you can read this: http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/forefron...003/robot.html

Re: Now that's a Robot Show! "Robot Rivals"
 

i think we need to get an RIT team in there for season three :D

Re: Now that's a Robot Show! "Robot Rivals"
 

I'll let Chris (WernerNYK) post his experience appearing on the show, but the gist of it is that most of the stuff they filmed was staged, the robots were pre-built when they arrived (they dissasembled and reassembled them for the camera, and made duplicates of parts), and, at least in the episode with the WPI team, the "winner" was decided arbitrarily.

Re: Now that's a Robot Show! "Robot Rivals"
 

Yes, the bots were prebuilt, but to the design of the teams. We did this because each episode is literally filmed in one day. Unfortunately, we found out early on that not every team that shows up is capable of building a robot on their own much less do it in five hours. Therefore, to save costs, Brian and I would prebuild each bot just prior to the teams arriving.

As some of you have noted, Robot Rivals is on a relatively unknown station and therefore didn't get the widespread recognition that it was capable of. It now seems that the network has decided not to renew the show for another season. It was fun while it lasted.

If any of you come down to the Southeast regionals then you will probably see me and my bald head behind the microphone arenaside :-D

Brett "Buzz" Dawson