They are wasting no time…
If you or someone you know is planning on attending the filming please be sure to reach out to me or @Luetchy or the rest of Team Switchback!
We fully redesigned our robot for this year. Here is a sneak peak:
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I have not been following lately, but lots of promotional activity…
How could I get the Discovery Channel on a Roku? I am definitely interested especially in the details
I found this article from last year:
and Discovery channel still says:
https://www.discovery.com/shows/battlebots
So it should be pretty-straight forward to install.
I don’t know what to make of this.
Will there be enough bots to do this four times a week every week?
BB is building a full machine shop along with special robots for the live fights. Most of the live fights will be more similar to sportsman class rules (lower weapon tip speeds, more armor) than full contact rule set used for the TV show.
CAD is a wonderful thing
How much are they paying the teams? Building and operating a bot is not cheap. And that is not even counting housing as this is more like a residency than a short visit to an event.