The championship match is today!
matches, two robots go into an arena that's about 28 feet by 28 feet, with metal grinders called hazards on the sides, buzz saws that pop out of the ground, screws that come out of the wall and drag robots to the hazards, and platforms known as shelves that raise robots above each other.
The Discovery Channel airs one episode a week for twenty weeks; each season starts with fifty robots, and the tournament includes the best 32.Bennito L. Kelty Even though it weighs 240 pounds and is made of inch-thick steel in most areas, at less than a foot tall and about three feet wide, Copperhead is the second-smallest robot in, which makes it more durable and harder to knock out."The smaller you make something, it allows you to have more weight allocated for really thick armor," Quintal says."We try to make our robot as small as possible.
Copperhead moves around on two tires, which presents another weakness: By taking out one of its tires, an opposing robot can deliver a knockout blow to its backside. But the team members have gotten creative, figuring out that they can use Copperhead's drum spinner to move it around. When they won last week against heavy favorite End Game from New Zealand, they did so by"That's the fun of the sport. You can design anything you want," Quintal says.
Copperhead has had"very fast" knockouts this season, Quintal says, with matches usually only lasting between ten and thirty seconds. He estimates that Copperhead has only spent a total of two minutes actually fighting this year, not including the ten-second count by a referee that gives robots a last chance to get back into the fight.
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