re: battlebots

From: Amara Graps (Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 10:57:29 MDT

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From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net), Thu Aug 31 2000

>Hey, while searching for low-brow TV I stumbled upon battlebots, which
>was on the comedy channel of all things. Two 100 kg robots, no
>restriction on design (except no explosives) fight each other to the
>death.

Then you might be interested in the work of one of my favorite Bay
Area research groups:

Survival Research Labs
http://www.srl.org/

(Their robots do much more than fight each other, though)

Amara

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