Sometime around November, my friend Alex decided that it would be cool to make a 250lb battlebot. I didn’t his whim to consume my life for the next 5 months and land me on a major network television show… but hey, life happens.
Meet Uppercut, a 250lb behemoth of a battlebot. It does exactly what it says on the tin using a 50lb AR500 spinning fist moving with a tip speed of around 180MPH.
Uppercut started out as a pile of CNC’d modular plates…
…from which a back end was born.
Add motors and you have a driving butt end.
You should always remember to take your robots out for walks, of course.
A quick trip to the welding shop gave it an AR500 front half…
…and before we knew it, our boy was all grown up! I can’t legally say how we did in the competition until our episodes air, but…
…I will show you this picture of the damage we did to the Battlebots test box. Watch the show to see how terrifying the robot gets!