Subscribe by EmailFeature: Wait, did you say “Flamethrower”? – The Robogames Combat Robots
April 14, 2009 by BrianBoyko | 6 comments
Combat robots aren’t exactly new – the first season of the Comedy Central show “Battlebots” aired in 2000 and the games had been going strong since 1997.
What’s interesting, however, is how 11 years of robot evolution have affected the sport. Back in 2002, the spinners ruled the day. But today’s robots are meaner than ever; and the sport’s fans just as obsessed. Why do they do it? Because for three glorious minutes, the world melts away.
I took the best fight footage we had and put it in this short video – I’ll try to have some outtakes up soon, as I know you love to see robots kicking ass.
If you’d like to see the video in full HD resolution, just hit this link, which will take you to the video’s high-def page on YouTube.
If you’d like to get more information on the Robogames, you can head to the Robogames Web site.
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Cannot See the Video, it started to load on Youtube but in the middle it stopped and on refresh I got a message of THIS VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE, liked it very much and you guys should put it somewhere else if youtube is is not letting it on their site.
Works fine here? I just checked it out twice.. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing?
Ok, it was a temporary glitch.. probably related to the fact that I was in the “editing” section of the video on youtube.
ITS Working now, THANKS
Looks like we got the glitch resolved; try it again. We’ve used Vimeo before, but YouTube has some better traffic stats.
Oh wow, I remember BattleBots! What a tremendous show that was! Love the updated video too – the times, they have a’changed!!
Great video!