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The Tech Shop in Menlo Park, CA is offering a class on how to build a 60-pound combat robot. Here is your chance to build your own fire-spewing, buzz-saw wielding combat robot with the help and guidance of veteran combat robot builders!

MECHWARS - For Real! Back in the 1980's we had the opportunity to host quite a few Japanese visiting Southern California on business. We happened to notice that a few of the men seemed totally fascinated by the XXX-rated movie theaters, which would be considered totally tame by today's standards.

Hi, I used to post here, but then I got an internship this summer so I've been super busy. I'll post more with going back to school and College Football coming up. Anyways... Robots fighting each other to the "death", how awesome is that?

The 10th ROBO-ONE robot competition took place September 16/17th in Nagai, Japan. The final match to determine the championship was between Ivre and King Kizer. For more information visit Robots Dreams at http://www.robots-dreams.com

Read more at http://combots.net/ and http://www.botjunkie.com/

Waiting for Ironman... During our trip, we were really excited about all the hype and enthusiasm centered around the new Hulk and Ironman movies. But, we just found out that the Hulk flick won't hit the screens here until August, and Ironman doesn't show up until the very end of September! The good news?

It's not our usual humanoid robot fare - it's not even close. But we thought you might enjoy a little taste of the 'other' side of RoboGames 2008. The noisy, crashing, smashing, and even burning, side of robotic competitions. Thanks to RoboCoreBrasil, here's what took place when Touro took on Argus in the arena.

Unless you’re Michael Bay can you ever go wrong with combat robots? Geeks come up with some awesome stuff. Source and more info. found at RoboGames (formerly ROBOlympics). RoboGames is the world’s largest open robot competition (even the Guinness Book of World Records says so!) We invite the best minds from around the world to compete in over 70 different events.

Build you own with this tutorial. Very cool. Too bad Battlebots has gone off the air.

CASIO EX-F1 CAPTURES BATTLEBOT DEVASTATION IN SUPER SLOW-MO [ROBOTS] May 29th, 2008 newVideoPlayer(”battlebotslowmo_giz.flv”, 506, 423,”"); Our someone Robert Woodhead is at it again: He took his battlin’ bot Totally Offensive—and his trusty Casio Exilim EX-F1—to Carolina Combat Robots for whatever “test procedures” in activity for the RoboGames in San Francisco June 13-15.