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Originally posted by team 713
Whyachi uses wheels. Besides walking robots are very very slow
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Defining exactly what is and isn't a walking robot is pretty tough as BattleBots has found out. The Season 3.0 Whyachi bots and some others found a clever way to make walking robots that were just as fast and powerful as wheeled bots.
The Season 3.0 Whyachi's used a clever cam mechanism that allowed the robot to travel very fast (they were running at 25% of top speed on TV) and was almost indistinguisable from wheeled movement. By doing this they got a huge weight bonus which really helped out their robots. These walking mechanisms are now outlawed and walkers get a small weight bonus now.
For Season 4.0 all four of their bots were wheeled; Son of Whyachi, which used to be a HW, was brought into the SHW class and isn't technically a walker anymore.
Dan