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Nuts

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Technical specification
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Weapon Flail Chain and Cluster Bots
Weight 110 kg
Defence Composite of 8mm plastic with 3 mm of wear resistant steel.
Top Speed 13 mph
Drive System High-power wheelchair motors
Power Electric
Battery Lithium Iron Phosphate
Biggest Weakness The team have intentionally cut back on armour to focus on making the best weapons they can.

A two-wheeled robot with a chain (which has a 1kg weight on the end) attached to each wheel. The robot is designed to spin on the spot so that the chains whip around with it, in an attempt to strike their opponents. In addition to the main robot, there are two smaller ‘clusterbots’ (secondary robots), that wedge underneath their opponents to manoeuvre them into the path of the main Nuts robot. Nuts is also surrounded by a protective metal ring which also acts as a flipping/self-righting mechanism.

Team stats

Rory Mangles22
Team role:

Captain, builder, driver

Occupation:

Cybernetics student 3rd year

Alex Shakespeare21
Team role:

Welder, clusterbot driver

Occupation:

Student

Dave Lawrie28
Team role:

Team stylist and PR expert

Occupation:

Works in the stock room at Homebase

Chris Shakespeare49
Team role:

Armour / tool supplier

Occupation:

Chartered Electronic Engineer

What makes Nuts unique...

The robot cost £1,100 in total to make (one of the cheapest in the competition).