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Posted by Too_Many_Tools on December 26, 2006, 10:53 pm
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In the past, cable would carry various showings of "Robot Wars" and its
variations.
Where are they now and are they carried on cable?
If not, what happened to them?
Are they available on DVD and tape?
Thanks
TMT
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Posted by blueeyedpop on December 27, 2006, 7:59 am
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The creator of Battle Bots, Trey, sued Budwiser when they came out with a
Battle Bot-esque commercial. Budwiser was a big sponsor of Comedy Central,
the network that Battle Bots was on.
Load pistol
Aim at foot
Fire
> In the past, cable would carry various showings of "Robot Wars" and its
> variations.
>
> Where are they now and are they carried on cable?
>
> If not, what happened to them?
>
> Are they available on DVD and tape?
>
> Thanks
>
> TMT
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Posted by Too_Many_Tools on December 27, 2006, 12:13 pm
Please log in for more thread options Hmmm...not good.
Are there any plans for web casts, tapes, DVDs...anything....I thought
it was a good thing.
Especially the discussions on design tradeoffs and practices.
TMT
blueeyedpop wrote:
> The creator of Battle Bots, Trey, sued Budwiser when they came out with a
> Battle Bot-esque commercial. Budwiser was a big sponsor of Comedy Central,
> the network that Battle Bots was on.
>
> Load pistol
> Aim at foot
> Fire
>
>
> > In the past, cable would carry various showings of "Robot Wars" and its
> > variations.
> >
> > Where are they now and are they carried on cable?
> >
> > If not, what happened to them?
> >
> > Are they available on DVD and tape?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > TMT
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Posted by RMDumse on December 27, 2006, 1:06 pm
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Too_Many_Tools wrote:
> I thought it was a good thing.
I did too. It was a sign for me the industry was about to wake up and
fulfill it's long awaited promise. The demise of those shows really
looked to spell another period of hybernation, and I really dread that.
The previous spike was in the early-mid 1980's with the Hero's and
Androbots, etc. Of course my long standed and loudly proclaimed
assertion was it was DARPA that really helped put the community to
sleep by draining off about half a billion in resources that would have
been better left in the hands of the entrepreneurs. But there I go
again, with my Adam Smith inspired thinking.
We had three of four of those kinds of programs. Battlebots was the
original. Robot Wars was the British version iirc.
--
Randy M. Dumse
www.newmicros.com
Caution: Objects in mirror are more confused than they appear.
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Posted by Joe Strout on December 27, 2006, 1:59 pm
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> Too_Many_Tools wrote:
> > I thought it was a good thing.
>
> I did too. It was a sign for me the industry was about to wake up and
> fulfill it's long awaited promise.
What industry -- dangerous RC vehicles? I do think the shows were good
for the RC hobby, but I don't see that they had very much benefit to the
robotics hobby. I don't want to start a religious war, but really, I
can think of more ways they did harm than good:
- They gave millions of people the idea that a remote-controlled vehicle
is a robot. (Unless it happens to look like a car, I suppose.)
- They gave millions of people the idea that robots (since they think
that's what these are) are violent, destructive, and dangerous.
- They inspired hundreds or thousands of kids to play with dangerous
weapons in an effort to build their own violent machines. (I wonder if
there are any reliable statistics on how many injuries occurred as a
result?)
- They caused Servo magazine to waste a good quarter of its pages on
content of fairly little value to hobby robotics (an unfortunate result
that continues to this day).
- If any girls with a budding interest in robotics watched one of these
shows, they probably gave it up, as these shows were disgustingly
male-oriented. (My wife certainly had no patience for them, and she's a
computer science professor.)
> The demise of those shows really
> looked to spell another period of hybernation, and I really dread that.
> The previous spike was in the early-mid 1980's with the Hero's and
> Androbots, etc.
I agree about the 80s spike, but I think we're entering a real golden
age now. Commercial robots like Roomba and Robosapien have been
dramatically more successful than anything in the past; robotic toys
(like TMX Elmo, and various dogs and Santas and whatnot with
speaker-independent speech recognition) are getting more sophisticated;
and the Robo-One events in Japan are becoming extremely popular there,
and starting to catch on here too. I think we're going to see more
advancement in the robotics hobby in the next decade than we saw in the
last two decades combined. Exciting times!
Best,
- Joe
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