Look out for scammers guys. I had someone try tell me I won the giveaway.

It's just a silly little guy

The sound effects around 9:32-9:37, where you play with the boot up sounds of the bot, was just pure enjoyment for my ears.

Just an idea; like you said, titanium while relatively hard, it's not that hard compared to hardened steel, but what you could try to improve edge retention when slamming into stuff is carbidizing the edges of the blades. It's basically welding a thin layer of tungsten-carbide onto one side of the edge to give it a much harder surface. I know that some knifemakers do that when/if they make titanium blades.

As an American beetleweight and antweight builder, the ultimate design that I have been working at is an overhead bar spinner that uses shuffle pods instead of wheels. This gives the bot a 25% weight bonus, allowing for a more powerful weapon motor and a heavier bar. Additionally, this would be made out of a central TPU chassis for maximum damage absorption with aluminum top and bottom armor for rigidity. Oh and by the way, that weapon blade being given away would come in quite handy for my first fairyweight build! 😉 Thanks for all the entertaining content and hard work!

I can't believe a 150g bot sounds that lethal! Great job with mini Deathroll, you really nailed it!

Hey Angus! I been a big fan of battlebots since first seeing the ABC reboot as a kid. I like to think it’s a big reason I developed enough of an interest in pursuing engineering as a career and I’m happy to say I’m now going into my sophomore year of college as a mechanical engineer. It’s been great seeing combat robotics evolve so much over the past years and seeing the success of robots such as Tantrum, Sawblaze, and Huge. I’d say if I were designing an all out dream robot it would be a cross between Tantrum and Whiplash. All of the control of a lifter, and the ability to set precise attacks. Throw in the drivetrain of Claw Viper and it would be an absolute powerhouse!

Oh man and you used Naomi’s new insert tool 😍 seriously awesome build!

I have been working on a 3lb robot that kinda looks like axe backwards. But I used a aluminum tube as the drum with a titanium bar on one side of it and all of the eltronics are inside the drum with the wheels on the outside. It works like a robot called noob tube but I put a rap around wedge that goes around one side so it can be somewhat defensive too. But this design is cool because around 3/4 of the weight is in the weapon.

Hey Angus! It was great to see pancake live and looking forward to more exciting antweight stuff. After my bot got destroyed, i plan to redesign and build a new modular both that can swap to differemt weapon types making it able to compete in both non destructive and destructive categories next event!

I love the way everyone comes over to check out what's making that terrifying spin up sound.

As a high schooler I do vex robotics and the zip tie idea looks fantastic. Last year the competition used discs that had to be shot out so we use zip ties to prevent the discs from flipping backwards.

That’s very cool that you were able to make a mini deathroll. I used to watch these competitions years ago and now that I started 3D printing, every time you do a video on them it makes me want to get into it more. The mini deathroll looks like it’ll be a menace.

I would probably just do Typhoon 2 with some kind of self-righting mechanism as my ultimate battle bot. The armor also being the weapon is a genius way to cut weight down to the point where they were able to power the thing with a small engine rather than the standard batteries, and the power that weapon had as a result is beyond terrifying. When your armor spins, every blow is glancing!

The robot I always wanted was a specialized anti-horizontal spinner bot (I imagined this back when Tombstone was dominating everything): use squishy armor that would (hopefully) slow down and catch those crazy fast blades, but use their own force to ram a large spike on the side of my robot into the side of theirs. Possibly up the ante with a spring-powered punch system like they use on centerpunches. Since it uses the enemy's strength against it, I might call it Aikido. Wish I could be there across the bay at OpenSauce - tickets are all gone though. Good luck! I would love to see more robot combat content. I love battlebots but would like to see more between seasons.

I love the mini death roll. Always been a fan of battle bots. I've always found tombstone to be one of my favorites, but for a antweight I think your design is better for a hard hitter with less damage to the robot itself 😂

Looks amazing and great explanation of how you made it. I should mention that you saying it might be the most powerful antweight spinner might be correct for Australia but it isn't in other countries. Either way the fact that it is almost a perfectly scaled down deathroll and it works well without being designed around that weight class is very impressive.

Building a flipper that uses bent carbon fiber as a lightweight high strength spring would be cool, styled like some kind of jumping bug as it will probably go flying with how much energy carbon fiber can store.

Dibs on a picture with Tantrum and Blip with tiny Deathroll at Opensauce

A flat robot using mechano wheels, with a different weapon on each side. For example, a ramp in one side, a vertical spinner on another, a spike hammer, and flipper arm on the two other sides. The mechano wheels would allow you to move in any direction so you can choose which weapon to attack with

My dream combat robot, I'm actually in the process of designing. It is a double drum with both drums in the front. They would be supported in the middle with a pair of forks like Scorpios, but back to back as to push the opponent to the outside. The drums would be fully reversible, and the bot designed to drive up side down. This way, no self righting would be required. The drums would be independently controlled so the gyroscopic action can be negated or utilized for steering. This would probably end up a paper tank like minotaur.

Great project! Mini Deathroll looks clean!

Would love to do a super-capacitor bot that just blows the other bots up with a light touch 😂

If I were to build a battle bot I would name it "Viceroy" due to it's dual mandible design intended to crush its opponents' frames. Think stag beetle mandible shape. Though maybe one mandible would be better because all the power goes to one arm instead of being split between two. In this case think hercules beetle mandible shape. The only real problem I can see is the holding/grappling rules restricting the crush timing to a minimum.

fantastic build. I really like the titanium colour

I love your combat robotics content! It makes me happy to see your stuff. I've been working on a US antweight hammer saw design for a while (yes before the BB finals lol), so far I've only run a wedge but I'm hoping to have the hammer saw design finished for the next local competition. Its gonna be tough to get into the right limit but I'm only 50-60g away so I think I can make it work.

It’s about the damage, a two stage hit would be my preference. Like a two parts hammer, flat hammerhead hits and if angle shows it hit the robot the spiked hammer follows (prevents nailing yourself to the floor). Or two spinning disks with opposite rotations, you either hit it hard enough with one or resistance will drag the other disk into play. This is for mini robots, for larger it’s usually just about compactness-hitting power balance

I love drum spinners. Some like Minotaur have excellent moveability and they can pack some serious punch. So that would probably be my dream bot to build. I've actually designed one already just need to get the parts someday😊

I don't want the weapon disc, but I'd like to say thanks for introducing me to combat robotics. It's one of my new favourite hobbies even if I suck. I recently upgraded my CR-10 so I could print nylon more easily for new chassis so my bots won't explode as much.

I know triplecrown didn’t get too much battlebots screen time, but I really enjoyed seeing a swerve drive in a competition with usually pretty basic wheel layouts. So if I could design my dream robot, it would probably have a swerve drive (probably just two swerve pods instead of three) alongside a horizontal spinner on one side and a flipper on the other.

Love the setup, bot, and the class limit. Would love to build something like that. Awesome work

Hi Angus! My idea is that since combat robots don't seem to have much armor on the bottom, we can use a forklift style lifting arm to lift the robot up, and then cut into it from the bottom, using a small spinning blade. Weight would probably be the limiting factor, since the forklift arm needs to be long enough it can pick up robots, and move high enough that the opponent can't just drive off the arms. Or maybe some controlled flipper style mechanism, which will reliably flip robots on their back, and then a simpler cutting arm can cut from above.

Completely insane, this is the stuff that makes me exited for where this sport is going, as an upcoming builder myself, you're certainty an inspiration.

Please more 3d printing with combat robots 🔥❤

Love the combat robots, ant weight looks like quite the challenge. I did have a design in mind, a disk-shaped robot similar to a simple spinner but with two toothed and counter-rotating rings completely encircling robot. The teeth on the bottom ring could be angled downwards if necessary to protect from wedge robots. It might even be possible to stop the weapon and use the teeth to pinch other bots so they could be dragged to pits or other hazards. I call it "Crown of Thorns."

My ultimate robot design would be a two arm battle bug that has curved flipper arms armed with spinner blades similar to yours. The arms would be mounted in the middle and be able to swing from left to right. It would have a futuristic look similar to the cyber truck but a very organic squid like paint job. Has been a blast. Thank you for sharing.

If I had to do a tiny bot, I think I'd want to recreate Mythbusters' Blendo. In one of Savage's videos, he goes over how Blendo was so obnoxiously effective that it actually flung bots over the barrier and into the crowd. The team was pulled aside, given an award, and told not to bring Blendo back because their lawyers would have an aneurysm. Savage said it was basically the best possible result you could ever hope for. A smaller version that's proportionally easier to handle but just as lethal in its weight class just seems like the perfect thing to do.

i absolutley love this kind of content, even tho im more of a 3d printing guy and i havent gotten in touch with combat robotics... yet. I think this countent even for your current audience could be very nice

Seeing your shirt inspires me, I would make a Doctor Who themed Combat Tardis! With an undercutting blade (covered with the galaxy design mimicking how the Tardis teleports) which wraps around sort of like a shell spinner/skirting and the main Tardis structure as a fixed self righting tower housing the components!

What a beautiful and clean design!

2:55 is truly amazing comedy. "So anyway, here's the full production CAD of Deathroll"

The very second you said "Battlebots", an incomprehensible wave of nostalgia was sent through my entire body, and I felt it all.

There are so many beaters, spinners and flippers. But I've always wanted to see a robot that jousted more or less. Piston, big pointy spear, horizontal that could be tilted up and down. Would be so cool.

I always wanted to build a robot like Minion, with a basic wedge design, a vertical dorsally mounted circular saw, a smaller trio of vertical circular saws on the back, and a self-righting arm that folded flush to the body. Basically, imagine the Aurora [possibly fictional] spy plane, and make it into a wedge and vertical circular saw type fighting robot.

One thing I would like to point out about h mjf pa12 is that if you would like an increase in elongation at break probably look into seeing if pcbway could do a vapor smoothing process, or maybe look into the material property of pa11 as that is an option for mjf printers.

I think I might try to do something with a diagonal rotor. It would be difficult to engineer and look a little weird, but I think going for a junker design would work well with it. Maybe working into it design that leaves very few stable orientations other than wheels down, maybe by having spikes jut out Mad Max style, would be pretty beneficial as well

Awesome build - this video makes us want to build our own! I like your design style.

Im not sure how much torque you would need, but maybe twisting some string making an actuator could work with a small cellphone vibration motor. It should be substantially less weight and should be enough force to flip the bot

Using the spining blade you made and using it vertically in the front (if the blade were balanced it could be used horizontally to counteract the gyro effect when turning and even use it as a self balancing feature making it harder to flip the bot as it would stay horizontal in the air). For locomotion just one power wheel in the back and a servo upfront that would touch the ground creating drag to steer the bot. With that much weight saving you could make a sturdy chassis to allow the bot to take a beating. Another option would be to have a massive capacitor and explode it when touching the other bot as a 1 shot weapon.

Probably the most polished Antweight/Fairy I have ever seen; Looking great!

Flamethrower would be cool but no place to store the stuff so A shock bot, it has some kind of taser or tesla coil or something so Powerful that would basically turn off the opponent, I'm not sure if that's allowed In case it isn't here's another idea: egg robot, or well more like sphere robot, I'm not 100% certain how you'd move it but i have a few ways in my mind (having "cuts" that work like wheels) and make the robot as indestructible as it can get and make it really fast.

My dream battlebot resembles an upside-down traffic cone. It has a single track-ball wheel and uses gyrosensors and Segway-style control strategy to balance and move about on its one wheel. It can also telescope along its vertical axis, and expand quickly to hop. Its weapon is a downward-firing spike. It is a glorious combination of a OneWheel, pogo stick, and jackhammer. It is finicky, obscure, unique, and will deliver spectacular death-blows. You can include a righting mechanism if you're the sort of wimp who thinks high-performance aircraft should have ejection seats. An alternate version has wheels top and bottom and a hinge in the middle, allowing it to do flips and cartwheels.

That shade of blue is super pretty, and the process seems surprisingly simple. Though in my head I'm comparing it to those "electroplating FDM prints" videos.

I've ALWAYS wanted to get into this hobby ever since I was a little kid. I've loved watching battlebots but I've never had the opportunity to get into it. But now I have experience with 3d printing, my new printer is on the way, and I'll be making good pay at my new job I'm hoping I can print off and start doing my own little robots. Maybe do some planes or boats also. Love the video!

One of the first combat robots I was going to build was a robot very similar to the robot named Droopy from NHRL, with two large overhead horizontal spinners, intersecting, but unfortunately due to budget and a lack of experience, had to put it on hold, but I hope to revisit the idea one day

Thanks for the great content Angus. I would build a robot with a similar flipping mechanism to your second control robot and a more enclosed body but possible smaller scale so as to have the extra weight to add extra features and change it to better suite me. That mechanism seemed very effective and a good weapon that cost less. I would use PCBway and injection mold with nylon while still keeping a budget for lack of a expensive weapon blade though still making a very effective battle bot.

After I saw you last Combat Robot video I got intrigued and found there's a combat robot league near me and have been designing in OnShape. For the Titanium spinner I'd mount it in the middle of the body and have a circular wedge type body, almost like a lifter, to get underneath the opponent and force it into the spinning blade.

It seems to me you could have a blade which encompasses the entire bot spinning horizontally, preventing anything from actually getting close. Effectively the entire outer frame becomes a spinning blade, with a conical shell so that wheels can lift it up and drive it, keeping the blade just off the ground.

So, one mechanical concept rules light weight battle bots. The ability to store up energy to unleash all at once, hitting far above the weight class would imply. This is why spinners are so common, because the ability to spin up the weapon to high RPM for a single blow allows even featherweights to hit like bullets. One idea I'd love to see is that idea taken to the extreme. A bot that uses elastic tension and a winch system to draw a metal spike back, then stab it into the enemy. like a crossbow that's made for melee. (No projectile, the bolt never actually leaves the weapon) I've seen this idea handled a different way in Robot Wars with Pain. That robot used a Co2 canister to fire a piston, but the weapon idea was the same. Stab the enemy at high speed.

Nice to see more footage of the workshop

My ultimate design for a combat robot would be some sort of full body spinner with a full articulating walking system. I love the robot by the way, definitely one of the coolest at that weight class.

I'm a big fan of horizontal spinners, I'd love to see the difference in design between one built for that!

I am currently in the process of designing/building a robot that is a crusher (similar to Razer or Quantum), but the beak has a drill on it to deal more damage, and prevent the crushed robot from getting stuck to the beak. Thank you for all the videos and content! Your channel is awesome!

Dream-bot concept: Swarm-bot - where the robot divides into multiple robots to attack as a pack. Most battlebot designs assume one opponent so will struggle against a swarm. E.g., 3 robots, the first, a vertical blade spinner, takes the attention of the opponent's weapon. Meanwhile the second, a lifter comes around the back to expose the drive wheels or some other vulnerability. The third, a pancake, sneaks under and destroys the drive wheels.

Wow that is actually really easy anodizing the Ti. Thanks for the info.

Thanks for sharing. Always enjoy your videos. 👍🏼

Great video, haven’t seen anything as entertaining as this for ages. As with any design there’s a compromise, but if you can overcome the stuck turtle issue, I would hate to be put against that little beast 😂

@Maker's Muse, I thiunk I would make a Maximizer style bot that looks more like a scorpion with it's out-streched tail and the spining blade on the back. The front would be armored with the pincers made as large wedglets to get under half the opponent's body leading their side/wheels to the tail weapon.

My idea I had as a kid was a flipper that had a spinner similar to tantrums with a similar weapon to Valkyries "glory blade" and was able to flip the opponent and slice it to weaken it before flipping it. If you can try to build that that would be awesome.

When I watched Battle Bots as a kid there was a bot called Hazard. It was just a trapezoid with flat walls, flat top / bottom, wheels and a flipper. Very simple and almost impossible to stop. I think I would want to try building it. Maybe I would add some triangular sloped armour on the sides for extra protection and to help prevent the off chance of landing on it's side.

the blade spinning that fast works also as gyroscope making it more difficult to flip

WOW that is pure solid electro-mechanical awesomeness!!! And it's so unbelievably tiny!

I love the fact that you casually use Nadsat in your every day vocabulary.

This little bot is AMAZING!

Love the awsome build, and I have another GREAT DESIGN CONCEPT! I also plan on making a direct mounted 150g vert, I'm from the USA so I will call it a fairy weight from now on. But basically it is kinda like end game, but with 2wd, maybe 4 in the future, with front hinged forks. And I found a way to direct mount it to the weapon motor of my 450g bot, I see some true power potential. I also plan printing the entire frame out of 100% Nylon for a little bit of extra impact resistance over rigidness, I would also use one of my Malenki Nanos for weight efficiency and the ability to use a 5 gram servo with a self righting arm(Also like End Game). Most of this weight would come out of the wheel guards and the little details that don't help the acual performance. Many fairy weights don't look that cool, but another funny thing is that Purple fits my green Poison color scheme. Overall, I've made plans, most of which already exist physically, and with a blade like that, this thing will NOT disappoint. Good luck at Open Sauce!

Please tell. For your own personal use, which is your normal printer? Despite all the printers that pass your way, do you still use an Ender3 of some flavour? I am tempted to buy a Sovol SV06 but the Ender just seems to work without a lot of fuss.

Thank you for reigniting Battlebots in my memories, two decades and I still haven't forgotten how kid me channel surfed and found cool robots just clashing steel

This is what I love about 3d printing. it gives anyone the ability to create their wildest dreams.

I would build a hexagon shaped robot with 6 spinning blades on each corner, and make the wheels stick out on both ways so it can drive upside-down. Pretty redicoulos but i think its beautifull

5:45 what a cool tool. I did my first insert the other day and wow was it horrible. I printed it with the recommended hole, but the insert ended up melting off center and leaving a big gap. Luckily it’s still strong enough, but next time maybe I’ll make a chamfer or something to guide it in place?

Put traction grip pads under the front of the robot, so when the spinner engages the enemy and lifts the enemy, it pushes the front of your robot down and grips the floor. You need a little bit of spring at the front to hold the traction pad JUST above the floor and and a lot of traction pad area.

Could you link the electronics, I have a 3d printer and want to make my own. Loved the design, the anodizing of the titanium was so cool and looks really nice.

As a fellow Aussie, I would love to make a battlebot called the Akubra, with a hat shaped top surrounded by weights on strings (like corks), that spins to act as the weapon. It will be self-righting because the bowl-shaped top and uneven weight distribution will put one side of the weapon in contact with the ground and the spinning will right it

I've always wanted to design a combat robot with an internal horizontal flywheel that is disconnected from the weapon by a clutch pack. This would allow the flywheel to build momentum even if pinned while hitting with power similar to a horizontal spinner. Rush the opponent, pin then or their weapon while internally spinning up my own, then delivery the death stroke. Good luck making that on an ant weight scale though!

My ultimate battle bot design would be a bot with 2 blades in the front (one on top of each other) but spinning opposite directions. Then have the blades designed in a way so when they're spinning they make a screeching sound.

I've been wanting to build a robot that has a welder built in, and just welds the other bot to itself, or to the ground. Imagine if you show up with a big tack welding hug, and the other robot just fuses to itself. No idea how to fit that in any weight class, but I think it would be hilarious.

I would do something similar to deathroll. Instead of a singular spinning blade it would you a pair of counter rotating blade set at an angle to each other. This would allow the blades to cover a larger area and having each one be a counter rotating set would hopefully keep it balanced.

I want to make a heavy flywheel which drives a super grippy tyre on the top of a wedge bot through a special clutch. I had the realisation that the impact of a spinner with claws making contact breaks the attacker more often than the opponent. What breaks the opponent is throwing them really hard, and hard surfaces don't really hold onto the opponent very well. So the idea is getting under them so they're wedged up on top of a dragster tyre, then dumping the clutch to grip them like crazy and throw them as hard as any other spinner. Rather than a glancing blow, every time you can wait for the opponent to be fully resting on the tyre before throwing them. If you're upside down, you also get no resistance to spinning up the flywheel and the tyre can throw you hard enough to self-right.

I would do a stealth robot. Something that probally has never been done before. A robot with a good armor, but you cant see the weapon. It detects where your opponent is and then retracs a very sharp weapon using some very strong springs out of its body.

OMG, the sound of that spinning up is crazy. however, that gave me an idea of making a defense first bot that has essentially a arm clamp that has brillo pad curtains on the end of it to essentially clog up the opponents motorized device.

Some neat notes on Ti anodizing. There are constraints on what colors can be had. If you've seen motor oil on a puddle... Its those colors, because it's the same effect. White like comes in all sorts of wavelengths. Some of it reflects of the surface of the oil. Some goes thru the oil film, reflects off the water, and comes back. Now the tricky bit. Any given wavelength is now out of phase with it's twin because the light that went thru the oil twice traveled further (and slower) to make that trip. Wavelengths of some length will amplify their twins wave and other wavelengths will cancel. Which wavelengths receive which can be changed by varying the oil film thickness. The thickness of oil varies "in the wild" so you get that rainbow effect. The reason the available color set is somewhat limited is because it's white light that has had one color cancelled out of it. Or instead of oil, the Ti oxide plating layer thickness. The reason it's effected by voltage is the oxide layer itself higher resistance so at low voltage you plate on a thin layer and it self regulates to pretty much stopping the plating. You need higher current to plate more. You get higher current by upping the voltage. It is actually possible to get thicker plating layers at lower voltage. It just requires accepting that the time soars thru the roof.

My ideal robot's main strategy would be to immobilize the competition. It would purposely have materials hanging off of it that would hopefully get tied up in the enemy robot. clog the wheels, the main weapon, and hopefully anything else that spins. Once its achieved this, it would have a pincher of some kind to squeeze the enemy, in hopes to pierce armor and delete electronics

Dream robot build: Something to make me hot chocolate. Oh, you want a battle bot? I guess I'd go for something as stable as possible. If everything that comes against me is brutally murdered and I barely budge, that's ideal. I'd probably shoot for discs that all rotate fast to create stability, then I'd just make each of those discs a bit of a weapon. Make it move fast and have a sturdy frame, and you could win.

Heck, I'd be so thrilled just to even compete!!! I have watched Battle Bots since the first airings way back in the early 2000's. I wouldn't even know what I would design but a titanium disc spinning at 30,000 rpm would certainly be part of it! Great video!

A tip for heat inserted threads, I take the longest bolt available and thread it on the insert and heat it up, that way its easier to keep straight as it melts into place

Remember the micro bots from the intro to Big Hero 6? I would design that clever, little but fierce robot and give it the titanium part as a spinning shield/ weapon of death. Ideally I would win every battle and save my brother

The bully bot, I would make a robot that jumps and the glides/floats down ontop of the opposition and attacks them front the top, I'm thinking it jumps up a good 2-4.feet, expands wings to aim itself on top of the enemy and drops on it with a spiked feet, the top of it is hard and you can aim it sideways to jump into robots like a hammer. -praying to get the cool titanium thing 🤞🤣

Building close to ground robot that has a way of getting underneath the others and springing it's top up to flip them over.

Hey Angus. Well done on your build. Deathroll looks awesome in a mini Version!! Question, will your files ever go online? I don't combat robot, but do have a big collection of all the robots and Deathroll is still missing.

I wish you a really pleasant trip!!! So many of my favorite makers will be there, I think it will be awesome. I never have seen a spherical battle bot. But I also didn't have a good idea to weaponize it. Pneumatic spikes punching outwards? In some movie there was a trap like a ball that crippled the hands if held to long... Man I don't remember the title.