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Terrorhurtz

Oxford

Technical specification
Location Oxford
Weapon Double-ended axe
Weight 107 kg
Defence 6mm of wear resistant steel, with 12mm of polycarbonate
Top Speed 11 mph
Drive System 2x 1000-Watt, 24 Volt motors
Power Pneumatic
Battery Lithium-Polymer, 26 volts
Biggest Weakness The team’s biggest worry is that the bullet-proof polycarbonate armour could be susceptible to powerful spinners, which they’ve tried to combat by adding more armour.

Terrorhurtz is a polycarbonate-armoured robot with the biggest axe in the competition - a 90cm long, Titanium, high-power axe, which fires at 100mph and generates one tonne of force. The team’s axe is intentionally blunt, as they are trying to ensure maximum trauma to the interior working of their competitor’s robots rather than puncture their armour (although they think that may happen too).

Team stats

John Reid57
Team role:

Captain / Driver

Occupation:

Designs race car simulators for F1 teams

Nick Lynch34
Team role:

Weapons Operator

Occupation:

Physicist and amateur rocket scientist

What makes Terrorhurtz unique...

Whilst captain, John, competed in Series 5 of Robot Wars with an old version of Terrorhurtz, his now team mate, Nick, was watching the show on TV (and didn’t know John at all), and had an idea of how to improve John’s robot. Nick emailed John a 3D interactive physics simulation of how to make the axe more powerful – John immediately offered him a place on the team.  The last time Terrorhurtz appeared on the show in Series 6, the only robot that beat them was Razer – who they’ll be meeting in their first battle.