The contest is held in a cluster of semipermanent tents in a parking lot behind Caesar's Palace on the Las Vegas strip. We also added a horn that could be triggered to flip up and right Ghost Raptor if it found itself on its back, which borrowed from some of my experience incorporating unicorn-horn-style designs.
We decided to add a flamethrower, in the hopes of scorching the electronics of our robot's opponents, or better yet, causing their batteries to explode. Every year both the rules and the arena design changes, both to keep things fresh for viewers and to discourage teams from converging on very similar optimized designs over time. My team is Raptor, and our robot is Ghost Raptor, a veteran of many battles from earlier seasons of the BattleBots show, which is currently running on the Discovery Channel in the United States.Ĭaptained by Chuck Pitzer, principal engineer at Fetch Robotics, and with Eric Diehr, Xo Wang, Sabri Sansoy, and myself, our team's first task was to decide how to upgrade Ghost Raptor. eastern, but the road to the arena began months before the contest began filming in Las Vegas last autumn.
So when I got invited to help update a robot designed to kill other robots in a televised death-match arena, I thought: Oki-doki, that sounds like a chance to do something different. As a fashiontech designer, I spend a lot of time making sure my designs are safe, whether it's a robotic spider dress or a prosthetic leg with a built-in Tesla coil and spark gaps.
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