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Robo Challenge 3D Print Super Strong Robots with Carbon Fibre<\/h1><\/h1><\/div>

Robo Challenge is a creative engineering company that pushes design and materials to the absolute edge. A small family outfit based in Birmingham, brothers Grant and James along with dad Nick, have built a reputation for building some of the toughest and most creative robots in the World.<\/span><\/p>\n

From designing the house robots for TV series Robot Wars to building the world\u2019s fastest chainsaw-powered vehicle and creating an autonomous football-pitch painting robot that uses GPS and vision detection to paint out the lines \u2013 Robo Challenge combines the latest technology with engineering know-how to bring ideas to life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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The Challenge<\/span><\/h2><\/div>

To build Spectre: A next-generation fighting robot equipped with a state-of-the-art hydraulic crusher as its weapon<\/span>
\nAs the engineering team behind BBC\u2019s Robot Wars, Robo Challenge were barred from competing themselves in the series, so they looked further afield and decided to create Spectre for the King of Bots (KOB) World Championship in China.<\/span>
\nJames Cooper, managing director at Robo Challenge, says, \u201cThere is no other industry like fighting robots that takes materials, batteries and motors to the extremes like we do. We have to design and build a 110kg fighting machine that will go into a 110-ton bulletproof arena with three minutes to either destroy the competition or be destroyed.<\/span>
\n\u201cThe difference between designing for automotive or aerospace and fighting robots is that with robots, there isn\u2019t the safety implications of a robot breaking down in an arena and hurting people as there is with Formula 1 for instance. It means we can run things much harder and closer to the tolerances of material specification without the worry of something catastrophic happening.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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