I have no idea why a potted plant was mounted on wheels, but there is a story behind the birthday present. Within 17 seconds, a drone takes flight, a robot digging a battle axe into a birthday present gets suplexed, and a potted plant (?) gets tossed asunder. Here’s actual exchange between announcers in this video:Īnnouncer 1: “He’s roasting him like a marshmallow, Chris!”Īnnouncer 2: “If so grab the chocolate and the graham crackers, I want some s’mores!” To put the bots’ destructive power in perspective, here’s a Battlebot named Tombstone taking on a bowling ball. Those engineers are very, very good at their jobs.

It’s everything you imagined doing with power tools as a kid fulfilled by teams of engineers from across the globe. Bots that stay in the middle get skewered by “kill saws” that rise out of the ground like the tigers in Gladiator. Bots that get too close to the walls are smashed by giant hammers. There are knives and axes and drones with flamethrowers. Surely the pinnacle of human innovation is a televised March Madness-style tournament in which robot gladiators try to smash, squeeze, slice, and melt their opponents with military-grade weaponry. While there may not be many human sports going on this summer, Elon Musk says we will soon live in a posthuman world, so it’s the perfect time to dive into the best posthuman sport: BattleBots.īattleBots is why God invented electricity.

Something needs to fill the void between Woj tweets. EDT (baseball doesn’t count because nobody has watched an entire baseball game since 2007). We’re fortunate to have a World Cup this year, but there are still no sports to watch after 4:30 p.m. Summertime is no-man’s land for sports fans.

Blade and soul are bots still here