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Episode 7 - Robot Wars

Monday 15 March

Jason and Ortis get into a fight but as you can imagine on the Gadget Show this is no ordinary fight – it involves high tech, £3000 worth of titanium and a CO2 powered axe. These are warring gadgets, it’s a fight to the bitter end – will anyone survive? Thanks to all of these guys who made it all happen -

Robot Wars

Special thanks to the team of engineers from www.robochallenge.co.uk
who helped to design and build our robot:

Grant Cooper, James Cooper, Nick Cooper and John Reid

Thanks to Pam Bhandal at Autodesk. Autodesk Inventor software: Dormer milling cutters to machine the tool steel disc supplied by www.dormertools.com

Robo Challenge

Priory Castor & Engineering Co. LTD

3D Drawings drawn by John Reid

Waterjet Cutting of the titanium performed by Draftek

Astroflight

www.vantec.com

www.horizonhobby.co.uk

www.dormertools.com

Microsoft Visual Studio

Warwick Manufacturing Group at Warwick University

CNC machining

www.rs-components.co.uk

ALK Engineering – kennyrobotics@hotmail.com

www.metalweb.co.uk

www.showtimeracinguk.com/

www.showtimeracinguk.com/

www.economos.com

www.westlondonmodels.com

Titanium International

www.autodesk.co.uk

Sexy Gadgets

Bowers and Wilkins Nautilus Speakers

Dell Adamo XPS

Apple Magic Mouse

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin

Filmed on location at Oceana Birmingham

Continental Mobiles

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Grant Cooper - Robo Challenge LTD

Awesome footage of the competition and build - The crew at www.robochallenge.co.uk had awesome fun working on this project with all the guys at the Gadget Show! Check us out at the Gadget Show Live exhibition this April.

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Stewart Leather

Saw the show on Monday 15MAR10 and like the Sony camera reviewed by John and scoring 4 G's. What the hell is it called as I can't seem to fing it onthe website? Need to buy one today ideally too? Cheers Stewart

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Michael

Im sorry but when they fought 360, it clearly has a self right mechanism, so it's stupid they say it was down and out because it could self right.

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