Finally some good news. Loved Battlebots back in the day, I just hope there will be less bots that do nothing but flip the other one over.

The NHRL has been blowing the pants off BattleBots TV show. I tune in all day during tournaments

I love NHRL, but let's not pretend their 30lb bots are comparable lol. Excited to have BB back

I want to see this thing escalate. Plasma cutters, explosives, depleted uranium projectiles.

have you seen how thick the walls of the battle box are already to protect everyone from the current levels of carnage?? with your suggestion they'd all have to be in another building!

So? We watch a recording anyway!

You can volunteer for the Russia army and experience some of those things first hand.

I was in the audience for a few shows! it was a blast, can't recommend enough!

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but my point is that audience participation is a core feature of the show. removing that would greatly change the character of Battlebots for no good (in my opinion) reason. the destruction is crazy enough that we don't need to be adding hazards that will complicate the fights a great deal

Or a small asteroid?

Just get a better legal waver and let the remote tank on tank battles begin!

Once you start doing spinners you are in "maybe we should have a box to fight in" because the other option is getting a shard of metal in the leg.

Is this just the American name for Robot Wars or is it a different show?

What i want in actual bots. No human controls. Robots by definition are autonomous. You put the bot in, run.exe and off it goes. It would make them have to really think about design instead of just having a whirling hammer on an rc car.

Orbitron claims to be mostly autonomous. I believe the driver still influences overall strategy but for the most part it handles second to second combat by itself. It hasn't had much success, but shows autonomy is an area teams are exploring.

Battlebots Org themselves are also looking into other rulesets for humanoid bots and autonomous combat. It's probably just a matter of time, but under current rules the autonomous bots will have to fight better than human operated first.

A robot is actually not autonomous by definition. A robot, by definition, is just a machine specialized for performing a specific and/or complex task.

Different show

Yeah, maybe they mean automaton?