robots

This Beyblade battlebot is like a whirling dervish of destruction

Arduino Team — July 10th, 2025 Battlebots are fascinating, because their builders always manage to come up with unique new ways of destroying opponents while avoiding damage at the same time. Like any good sport, it involves metagaming to develop a strategy based on expected opponent strategies. Ari’s strategy was to make a translational drift (or “melty brain”) combat robot that spins its entire body at insane speeds, which requires some pretty careful engineering. Ari’s contender...