"You can feel the prussiar wave move through your body outside the arena, just from getting hit there," he says. "Onese and rocket launches, you shoud have no idea how bright that engine is, how deep the rumble is across your chest." 'I think they so it like the old west, the movies and the oldwest, people got shot, but you never saw blood,' adds Rizzo.
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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