Hardcore Robotics

It’s finally here… the premiere of BattleBots FaceOffs – Episode 1 (part 1)!
And we’re kicking things off with a Round Robin mini-tournament featuring FOUR iconic teams:

💥 HyperShock
💀 Hardcore Robotics
⚙️ Valkyrie - BattleBot
🚀 Orbitron (The Hacksmith)

Every robot fights every other robot once—that’s 6 fights total across the two part episode!
Whoever comes out with the best record wins a brand-new piece of BattleBots hardware:
🏆 The Giant Washer

You’ll see the hits, the chaos… and we’ll take you behind the scenes with the builders as they tell their stories, reveal their strategies, and fight to earn their place in BattleBots history.

Episode 1 drops Thursday, March 27, with Part 2 coming Thursday, April 3—both co-released with our friends at Hacksmith.

This is BattleBots like you’ve never seen it before—raw, real, and made with love by the builders and our team.

📺 Watch it exclusively on YouTube. Free to stream. No paywalls. Just robot carnage.

Tombstone, all ready for BattleBots Faceoffs!

Or is it? Functionally everything works great and I was feeling pretty confident, until we tossed it on a scale today 🤣 Just a tad overweight, so somewhere in my calculations I messed up. But no big deal, I've got ~40 hours to get everything completed and loaded up in the van. Plenty of time 😝

Robots are fun, right?

I've got a slight bit of machining ahead of me 🤣 I am hopeful I can get this completed in time for BattleBots Faceoffs in a couple of months. Let me get a little further along and I'll go into detail on the unusual steel alloy involved.