Creators of the Hounds, Formula and Rapid

Very pleased to say that Andy won the 60th Antweight World Series competing with 116 other robots! #congratulations #robots #winnerwinnerchickendinner #fliptowin

A great montage of The Hounds from the arena at #KingofBots #robots #Robotwars #montage #letsgo #spintowin #ReleaseTheHounds youtu.be/FLCIj4ACWXI

Rolling into Tuesday like....... #engineering #ready #TuesdayMorning #robots #robotwars #rolling #LetsGo #KoB #zoom #tuesdayvibes #

Here was a scale model that was made before building the real thing to prove the geometry was correct #slowmo #robot #robotwars #mini #hounds #ReleaseTheHounds #engineers #engineering #test

Finally able to reveal the build for KOB2 built and driven with @PulsarRW The goal with Hounds was to build the most competitive dual clusterbot the sport has seen, without losing cool points. Each 54kg machine packs a 17kg 10,000rpm drum on a tiny 4WD platform.

The team is off to #Shanghai Zàijiàn!

Our first set of wheels looked great, but unfortunately the supplier used very low grip rubber. So we're casting our own from Vytaflex60 to get better performance. We machined two nylon end plates which slide into 150mm ID plastic piping, making a low cost reusable mould.

Just assembling some drivetrains today. Can't have too many spares... @PulsarRW #robots #fighting #robotcombat #LetsGo #spares #builddiary #assemble #ready #rumble

The extreme weightsaving extends to the gears this time too! Just hope they hold up. 😬 @PulsarRW #Robotics #Robot #gears #omgrobots #gettingready #readytorumble #zoom #itstime #battlebots #kob #kingofbots

Most of this weekend was spent getting ready for the Antweight World Series. Custom gearboxes will be in action #robotics #robots #robotwars #mini #3dprint #electronics #seeyouthere #nextweekend

Testing different polyurethane rubbers for wheels on the #new #robot. This is to make sure we get maximum grip on the arena floor @PulsarRW! #build #RobotWars #battlebots #KoB #wheels #robotics #testing #builddiary #readytorumble #letsgo #whichone #choices

Robots are basically clever bits of metal joined together in clever ways. @PulsarRW designed this part, we're not sure where it goes. #robot #robotcombat #noinstructions #clevercookie #battlebots #kingofbots #omgrobots #soon #readytorumble #gettingready

Rapid is ready to take on Mighty Mouse @RobotsLive Still looking shiny and gold! #gold #shiny #robotfightingtime #Stem

Does anyone know what this means??? We are not sure if it's bad or good.....but we do like the picture! #translation #robotics #Formula #ReadytoRoar #flipflipflip #robotics #Shanghai #thisisfightingrobots

What Do You think of our latest design? Do you like the #Bentley style #Formula Do you like the #gold or would you prefer a different colour or inspiration? Let us know and we can make it happen! #Robotics #KingofBots #design #gold #goldenhour #thisisfightingrobots #headlights

So the last fight didn't go quite as planned. We had a gas leak and therefore relied on Andy's driving to get #Formula through. Unfortunately that got us 0 points We have learnt so much from the experience and are so grateful to have the opportunity to fight. #wewillbeback #KoB

Look how happy everyone is! One more sleep till another episode of #ThisIsFightingBots Watch to see how #Formula fairs! #one #readytorumble #zoom #yay #Robotics #Robot

Here is a view from the audience seats @KOBCHINA #thisisfightingrobots The setup was amazing and shows the future of robot combat #RobotWars #gogogo #zoom #robotics #Formula #one #Shanghai