James Cameron is to Produce a Robot Show on Discovery

[Koko Ed]

Whatever happened to that Battlebots thing ESPN was supposedly doing?

[AlexH]

it died after they couldn't sell the advertising space for the show. the footage still exists and some is on youtube... http://www.youtube.com/user/BattleBotsTV?ob=0


the speculation from the robot combat community is this is going to be real steel style biped robots, not traditional combat robots.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by AlexH

it died after they couldn't sell the advertising space for the show. the footage still exists and some is on youtube... http://www.youtube.com/user/BattleBotsTV?ob=0


the speculation from the robot combat community is this is going to be real steel style biped robots, not traditional combat robots.

So if ESPN can't make it work what makes James Cameron think he's going to succeed? I think we're in for another false start on this again.

[AlexH]

about every year or so battlebots has some tv deal that falls through.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by AlexH

about every year or so battlebots has some tv deal that falls through.

Battlebots is so last century. The idea needs an upgrade.

[keneajer]

I dont think that the whole battle bots hasn't completed gone away. I know that there is a program that like FIRST you can join but more like battle bots. The program is called bots IQ. I know when I was in High School there was both a FRC team and a bots IQ team.

[AlexH]

botsiq is kinda dead on the national level, it still lives on in florida. the big high school combat programs are nrl http://gonrl.org/ and mrl http://www.midwestroboticsleague.org/. nerc also allows high school class robots to enter http://nerc.us/

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by AlexH

it died after they couldn't sell the advertising space for the show. the footage still exists and some is on youtube... http://www.youtube.com/user/BattleBotsTV?ob=0


the speculation from the robot combat community is this is going to be real steel style biped robots, not traditional combat robots.

Which forum is this? I haven't been into it for a few years now. Would be nice to get back into it. I still have parts somewhere to build a bot.

[AlexH]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

Which forum is this? I haven't been into it for a few years now. Would be nice to get back into it. I still have parts somewhere to build a bot.

the robot fighting league forum http://forums.delphiforums.com/THERFL

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Battlebots is so last century. The idea needs an upgrade.

the sport has really evolved in the past few years. robots have gotten more destructive and cheaper with icbm's (inexpensive chinese burshless motors), lipo batteries and other cheaper electronics. the other big change is the "sportsman class" which outright bans wedges and high kinetic energy weapons, which leaves room for more creative bots. arena hazards also don't exist anymore and floors are often plywood which gets scared and chewed up which creates an uneven surface which forces robots to have a higher ground clearance.


for anyone who's interested and in florida there is a battebots event coming up soon http://buildersdb.com/eventdetail.asp?eventid=348