There are certain things that you would do and a heavier robot that work fine. And the lighter they get, the less effective they become. The overhead hammer attack works a little better in heavy ones. As they gets smaller and smaller, you just can't. There's not enough room in the way to have a hammer that will do anything to the other room. It's really hard for a fourth grader to kill an adult, really hard.
Programmed…to kill! On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly sit down with BattleBots’ Ray Billings to discuss combat robots, his killer robot Tombstone, and how to create robotics for competition.
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