Creators of the Hounds, Formula and Rapid

Very pleased to say that Andy won the 60th Antweight World Series competing with 116 other robots! #congratulations #robots #winnerwinnerchickendinner #fliptowin

A great montage of The Hounds from the arena at #KingofBots #robots #Robotwars #montage #letsgo #spintowin #ReleaseTheHounds youtu.be/FLCIj4ACWXI

YES YES ALL DAY LONG YES

@TheSuvv The Hounds probably combine into smaller than these in terms of internal volume. Not the final Hounds CAD shown, but they are really, *really* small. @TeamRapidRW for scale too.

Who has been watching the Series 10 repeats? We have! Episode three brings more action and thrills as six robots battle it out for their place in the Grand Final! The first three in tomorrow's episode are @CCRobotWars , @BuckyTheRobot and @TeamRapidRW!

A few build pictures of the #Hounds #ThursdayThoughts #engineering #mechanical #electronics #robots #robotics #ReleaseTheHounds #build #BehindTheScenes #builddiary #KoB

Rolling into Tuesday like....... #engineering #ready #TuesdayMorning #robots #robotwars #rolling #LetsGo #KoB #zoom #tuesdayvibes #

Here was a scale model that was made before building the real thing to prove the geometry was correct #slowmo #robot #robotwars #mini #hounds #ReleaseTheHounds #engineers #engineering #test

@PKW_ITA @PulsarRW We built a scale model of the hounds to prove we could gyro self right and not have the need to drive long distances upside down. No need to make the ears more complicated than they need to be.

@TeamRapidRW @PulsarRW Looks impressive? Is that gyro-invertibile or like full backwards to full forward to flip back? I fear the shape of the top drum guards may catch something of the floor and prevent that, any reason for no bearing there?

Finally able to reveal the build for KOB2 built and driven with @PulsarRW The goal with Hounds was to build the most competitive dual clusterbot the sport has seen, without losing cool points. Each 54kg machine packs a 17kg 10,000rpm drum on a tiny 4WD platform.

Alan from the team has just returned from China filming the latest series of King Of Bots with a brand new Vulcan! We will let you know when you can watch.

The team is off to #Shanghai Zàijiàn!

Our first set of wheels looked great, but unfortunately the supplier used very low grip rubber. So we're casting our own from Vytaflex60 to get better performance. We machined two nylon end plates which slide into 150mm ID plastic piping, making a low cost reusable mould.

Just assembling some drivetrains today. Can't have too many spares... @PulsarRW #robots #fighting #robotcombat #LetsGo #spares #builddiary #assemble #ready #rumble

The extreme weightsaving extends to the gears this time too! Just hope they hold up. 😬 @PulsarRW #Robotics #Robot #gears #omgrobots #gettingready #readytorumble #zoom #itstime #battlebots #kob #kingofbots

Most of this weekend was spent getting ready for the Antweight World Series. Custom gearboxes will be in action #robotics #robots #robotwars #mini #3dprint #electronics #seeyouthere #nextweekend

Testing different polyurethane rubbers for wheels on the #new #robot. This is to make sure we get maximum grip on the arena floor @PulsarRW! #build #RobotWars #battlebots #KoB #wheels #robotics #testing #builddiary #readytorumble #letsgo #whichone #choices