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This week on The Havoc Rundown, the crew comes together for a special roundtable episode to close out the year and officially wrap up Season 2. With no guest and no commercial breaks, this episode is

Liam has been on a tear this year with Buzzzz-kill recently capturing the 12lb crown at November NHRL! Now the overall 2nd seed behind only Slam Plan, Liam looks poised for a deep run at Finals. Outsi

This week, we’re joined by Jamison Go, two-time NHRL worldchampion, BattleBots veteran, and one of the most respected builders in thesport. With the 2025 NHRL World Championships right around the corn

Dima has launched onto the scene over the past year with her brother Julian as one of the most dynamic siblings at NHRL! First piloting the very kindly Turbofriend before helming the lethal TurboFIEND

In this episode, we’re joined by Richard Tieman, the newest addition to the NHRL commentary team and a rising voice in combat robotics broadcasting. Known for his high-energy pit reporting during Prim

In this special episode, we welcome Kekoto Maane, builder of some of the most unpredictable, off-meta, and surprisingly effective robots in the combat scene, including Kill It With Fire and the multi-

In this episode, we’re joined by Paige Clayfield, builder of Jelly Baby—one of NHRL’s most feared and consistent 3-pound control bots. Coming off her second dumpster win of the season, Paige walks us

Jack has been known for years as the driver and co-captain of End Game, winner of Battlebots World Championship V and the Golden Bolt! End Game not only brought the top trophy of robot combat with the

In this episode, we welcome veteran builder and BattleBots driver Zach Lytle, the mind behind Skorpios and founder of Bot Bash, a hands-on educational robotics program that teaches kids engineering th

For the final episode in our Around the World summer series, we’re handing the mic to Ryan for something completely different: a full-on trivia showdown. That’s right—this one’s all games, all chaos,

In this episode of our Around the World summer series, we travel to Brazil to explore one of the most decorated and innovative combat robotics teams in the world: UaiRrior Robotics, builders of the le

Behind the Bots 234 Interview with Team Whiplash Captain Matt Vasquez!   Matt has been building and competing in combat robots all his life with machines like Whomper, Lil Lash and Whiplash! Known as

Zoe and Team Honey Cracked have been perennial competitors at NHRL with entries like Minun & Plusle, BeeForce, HoneyBombers, and many more! Honey Cracked recently hosted the 2nd Hive Hysteria even

In this episode of the Havoc Rundown, we head to Australia as part of our “Around the World” summer series to spotlight one of the most creative forces in the southern hemisphere: Ben Hayton of Team P

In this episode, we dive headfirst into the UK’s robot combat scene with two key voices behind Robot Rebellion: event organizer Gareth Anstee and head judge Ryan Bratley. Together with Justin and the

In this episode of the Havoc Rundown’s "Robots Around the World" series, the crew sits down with Tim Bouwens, the builder behind BattleBots' Ominous and the NHRL standout Wajoo. Broadcasting from the

Alex has been a perennial competitor at NHRL with Floor Letter Word and a member of the Brett Breakers! He's also well known for event organizing GSCRL whose season championship will be coming up on A

We’re kicking off our Robots Around the World summer series with a visit to the Great White North! In this episode, we sit down with Team Unforeseen Consequences, the Canadian builders behind the terr

This week on the podcast we will be Glenn Boxell, member of team 2 Hot 2 Handle  builder of Caldera 12 and recent 3lb Golden Dumpster winner Caldera !   Let us know what questions you have for Glenn!

On this episode of Havoc Rundown, the team dives into the June NHRL event to recap the most explosive moments from all three brackets. From Monkfish’s relentless run in the 3s, to Full Court’s suffoca

This week on the podcast we will be interviewing Eli Davis of Team Sawblaze while looking forward to the June NHRL event! We’ll talk about Eli’s experience with Sawblaze and his cool robot designs !  

The June 7th NHRL event is almost here, and the Havoc Rundown crew is breaking it all down! We’re joined by fantasy league front-runner Dan Dischino for a stat-packed episode featuring Ryan’s chaotic

This one’s for the family bots and fantasy league fanatics! In this jam-packed episode, we dive into the unforgettable May NHRL Event, spotlighting Sad Octopus’s phenomenal semifinal run and the Garen

In this no-guest chaos episode of Havoc Rundown, the full crew returns for a jam-packed May NHRL preview. Things kick off with Ryan’s Game Corner and its debut segment, The Price is Fight—a Price is R

This week on the podcast Jake and Brandon will be interviewing Kezia Skye of Sleepy Anime Girl Club about their recent (and very first!) Golden Dumpster with perennial hard-hitting 3lb robot Chainsaw

This week on The Havoc Rundown, we’re joined by none other than Tim Hebert—robotics educator, NHRL fan favorite, and the brilliant (and slightly chaotic) mind behind Chubby Unicode. That’s right, not

This week on the podcast, Chris, Lindsay, Luke and Kyle say goodbye with one final AMA. We’re handing off the show into the very capable hands of Golden Dumpster winners Brandon Bennett Young and Jake

In this special episode of Havoc Rundown, the crew welcomes an all-star lineup from the MIT Combat Robotics Club ahead of the April NHRL event. From bold design philosophies to open-source accessibili

The March NHRL tournament was absolute chaos, and we’re breaking down every explosive moment! 🏆🔥 From shocking upsets to dominating performances, we dive deep into the fights that shook the combat r

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with longtime friend of the pod Lars Elliott, builder of IMPAKT and Jet Lag. In March (spoilers) he won his first career Golden Dumpster, becoming the young

This week on the podcast, we’re gearing up for March 2025 NHRL with two-time Golden Dumpster winner Brian Boxell. Brian made his NHRL debut in July 2020 with his hard-hitting beetle Eruption. Over the

This week on the podcast, we’re recapping all the action from Motorama 2025, with Havoc Rundown cohosts, NHRL Pit Control members and our dear friends, the Hunter brothers! Ryan and Justin served as j

We're back with another action-packed episode ofHavoc Rundown! This time, we’re breaking down all the chaos from theFebruary 1st NHRL event—which bots dominated, which fell short, and how it all s

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with Georgia Tech engineering student and ChonkIV team lead Daniel Vail. ChonkIV is the most effective shell spinner competing today, with two Golden Dumpst

This week on the podcast, we’re previewing the February 2025 NHRL qualifier (Feb. 1 in Norwalk, CT!) with Pramheda builder Zack Knight. We learn about the Pennsylvania Bot Mafia, BotsIQ, and why he lo

In this episode, we kick off 2025 with a bang as we welcome Glenn Boxell, an incredible builder and the creative force behind the competitive bots Caldera and Caldera 12. We delve into Glenn’s journey

This week on the podcast, we’re diving into all things Chainsaw Kitty with builder Kezia Skye. We get a closer look at what’s inside CSK, and what’s ahead for the bot in 2025.   Follow us on Facebook:

This week on the podcast, we’re go-ing deep with multi-time NHRL champion/Giant Nut winner Jamison Go, with a series of insightful questions from the fans. Curious about this week's Robot Around the

This week on the podcast, we’re ringing in 2025 with your robot fighting predictions for the coming year. What’s this year’s NHRL meta? Where is the sport of combat robotics headed over the next 12 mo

In this special year-end episode of Havoc Rundown, we gather to celebrate an incredible 2024 season of robot combat and gear up for an action-packed 2025. Together, we reflect on standout moments, fro

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with (SPOILERS!) 2024 NHRL Champions Ryan Lu and Peter Garnache, who ran the beetleweight multibot Repeater through a nearly flawless day. We talk about the

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with Brandeis University student Dan Dischino for a preview of the 2024 NHRL Championship, happening this Saturday, Dec. 7 in Norwalk, CT and livestreamed o

In this exciting episode of The Havoc Rundown, Justin and the team dive headfirst into the world of combat robotics! Special guest Brian Boxell, creator and driver of the formidable robot Eruption, sh

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with the Business Cat himself, Brendan Steele, builder of Ram Plan and Slam Plan. Brendan served on the BattleBots crew for HUGE in Season 7, and in October

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with MIT students Anhad Sawhney and Ryan Duarte to learn what it took to rebuild their school’s combat robotics team post-COVID, and how to build a Golden D

In this episode of the Havoc Rundown, we dive into the latest developments in competitive robotics. We’re joined by special guest Ricky Willems, Safety Director at the National Havoc Robot League (NHR

This week on the podcast, we’re poring over the 2025 NHRL ruleset with Maximizer captain Jake Hoffmann. Are the new rules good actually? We explore them live!   Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/beh

In this special episode of The Havoc Rundown, we take a more relaxed approach and are joined by Luke Stangle from Behind the Bots for an easy-going conversation packed with laughs and stories. We reco

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with brother-and-sister team Julian and Dima Papasian, who started as rookies at NHRL last year, and climbed the hill faster than most—Julian taking second

Our October 26th preview episode is finally here! In this episode, we sit down with the incredible Team Honeycracked to explore their journey from fierce competitors to influential mentors and educato

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with longtime NHRL referee Gwen McGuire, who is making her NHRL debut this Saturday with a brand-new robot, Jackalope. We go behind the scenes to learn what

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with giant pumpkin farmer, combat robotics veteran, exotic pet shop owner, dad, and friend of the pod Chad New! Chad took home his fourth career Golden Dump

In this exciting episode of The Havoc Rundown, We welcome Brandon Young, a renowned combat robotics builder and Golden Dumpster winner. Our pit control crew then dive into Brandon’s journey from early

This week on the podcast, we’re going behind the scenes at NHRL with broadcast producer Neil Sullivan. Neil works in the production room on event day to help the livestream run smoothly. Super interes

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with September 2024 Golden Dumpster winner Peter Garnache from Repeat Robotics. Peter is a former HEXBUG designer, Horizon pit crew member on BattleBots, ro

This week on the podcast, we’re recapping September 2024 NHRL with 12-pound Golden Dumpster winner Liam King, who qualified his second bot of the season: Buzzzzz-Kill. We talk about his journey in the

In this exciting episode, we are joined by international superstar Tony Clifton for a lively discussion blending music and the world of robot combat. We dive into Tony's musical journey, including

This week on the podcast, we’re previewing BattleBots Fall Faceoffs, with BattleBots co-creator Greg Munson. There’s been a lot of recent changes with BattleBots, so we’re catching up with Greg to get

This week on the podcast, previewing the fifth NHRL qualifier event happening on September 14th! We take a deep dive on the bots across the 3, 12, and 30lb brackets and discuss some of the new, terrif

In this episode, we're thrilled to welcome special guest J Lee from The Kinekitsu Combat Group, a talented bot builder and fellow content creator. J and Thomas face off in an exciting new game dev

In this exciting episode, we sit down with Kevin Biagini and Ariel Smith, the brilliant minds behind Team Pandamonium, one of the most formidable combat robotics teams competing at the NHRL. Join us a

We’re back with a highly anticipated episode featuring a special guest: Kelly Biderman, the CEO of NHRL! Join us for an exclusive interview where we dive into Kelly's journey before NHRL, explore

The trilogy concludes with our third and final (??????) hot takes episode. Things get a little silly. Check the behind-the-bots discord channel for competition details! And thanks again for sticking w

We are back and this time we are talking to mad cat themed robot building genius himself Tom Farkas!! We get to know this fan favorite builder a little better and find out some of his favorite moments

We are back again with a follow up of our special teams event that happened on June 1st. This was an invite only event where teams of three bots, a 3lb a 12lb and a 30lb, all competed together. In ord

We keep the hot take train rolling. Now with more advocating devils!   Pt. 3 dropping soon......

Catch the NHRL Teams event on June 1st! Get your tickets at https://www.nhrl.io/events

You submitted over 100 hot takes. We discuss, and occasionally roast them. Pt. 2 dropping this month!   Thanks for 5 wonderful years. <3

We find ourselves in between events so the only reasonable thing to do is site down and get to know one of our favorite people at NHRL...Rob Sarakin!! If you have ever been to NHRL or participated in

This week on the podcast, we’re recapping the April 2024 qualifier event, which minted 12 fresh invitations to the Finals later this year. We’re breaking down the action with the teen phenoms on Team

Hey everyone we are here with your NHRL April 20th Pre event show! This is going to be an action packed event so in order to get us ready we brought on a very good friend of the show, mastermind behin

This week on the podcast, we’re previewing April 2024 NHRL, which will feature some big changes to the House of Havoc. We’re joined by guest cohost and friend of the pod Zoe Lambert, captain of Team H

Hey Everyone we are back with a new episode this time with our first returning guest Jimmy Gibson!! Jimmy is with us to help us break down the RIT event and answering a bunch of behind the scenes ques

This week on the podcast, we’ve got a returning guest from the earliest days of the pod, RailGun Max captain Elaine Wu! She was on the pod aaaaall the way back in August 2019, just months before the p

This episode we delve into the March 2nd event with fan turned builder Michael Cross, builder of Stag Beetle Bot. We pick Michael's brain a bit finding out what got him into robotics, who his bigg

This week on the podcast, we’re previewing March NHRL, plus talking about our experience at Motorama 2024.   Note: Unfortunately, Kyle's audio wasn't saved by our recording program! Apologies for any

This episode we highlight some of the bots we are excited to see at our March 2nd NHRL event. We wanted to bring in someone huge to help us talk about our first event of the year that will feature som

This week on the podcast, we’re previewing Motorama 2024 with Northeast Robotics Club officer Jon Durand. Motorama is the flagship event of the year at NERC, with several thousands spectators over a v

This episode we sit down with famed Youtuber, NHRL competitor and businessman Seth Schaffer. We talk to him about his experience in the combat robotics world and what it was like starting his own busi

We are back with our January 2024 New Bots event post show. This was such a huge and amazing event we couldn't possibly contain it to one podcast so we brought on some help. Joining us is Chris De

With the new bot event around the corner we are diving into the fight card looking at the brand new bots that are going to be competing for the first time at NHRL. We have gotten a look at the fight c

We have arrived in a new year of robot combat and we are looking forward into what the year 2024 has to offer. To help us do that we have one of the masterminds behind every NHRL event Jimmy Gibson! H

Well we are on the other side of the Havoc All-Stars invitational event and wow what an event that was. One builder who had an amazing time is our good friend Corey Nason builder of Synthesis and Synt

This week on the podcast, we’re previewing the 2023 NHRL All-Stars event, Dec. 5, 6, and 7 on YouTube. We’re catching up with NHRL Henchman Sam who will give us an inside look at what to expect.   Fol

Have you ever wondered what exactly a henchman does? What was it like building a jet engine robot? Who the hell is Maple Syrup man? What about what went into putting together Open Sauce? We ask these

This week on the podcast, we’re recapping the 2023 NHRL Championships, which saw Emulsifier take home first place in the 30-pound weight class, Full Court win in the 12’s, and Booty Brigade take home

Welcome back to another exciting episode, this episode we wanted to get to know the people behind the podcast and see what makes them tick. Each Pit Crew member was asked to come up with an interestin

This week on the podcast, we’re previewing the 2023 NHRL Championships, which will be held this Saturday in Norwalk, CT and livestreamed live over YouTube. We’re joined by our good friend Chris Moran,

This is our inaugural episode where we are breaking down the first round matchups for all 36 bots in our championship event. We will talk about the matchup and how each bot did this year as well as wh

This week on the podcast we have two very special guests! Jeff Waters of Supreme Ruler and JackPot-Battlebots and Jason Woods the innovator behind cam lifter style robots and Tracer - Battlebot. We'

This week on Behind the Bots, we’re reviewing season 2 episode 3 of The Golden Bolt tournament, AKA Sin City Slugfest, AKA BattleBots Champions with special guests Brad Hanstad and Shea Waffles Johns!

This week on Behind the Bots, we’re reviewing season 2 episode 2 of The Golden Bolt tournament, AKA Sin City Slugfest, AKA BattleBots Champions with special guest Matt Vasquez! Brandon Young joins Kyl

This week on the podcast, we’re recapping NHRL’s final qualifier of the 2023 season, We are also reviewing season 2 episode 1 of The Golden Bolt tournament. Brandon Young joins Kyle as a guest host fo

This week on the podcast, we’re previewing NHRL’s final qualifier of the 2023 season, happening this Saturday in Norwalk, CT and livestreamed on YouTube. We’re joined by two pivotal members of the Pit

This week on the podcast we’re previewing BattleBots Champions II (the spin-off show returning to the Discovery Channel on Thursday, Oct. 5) with our friend and returning guest, BattleBots co-creator

This week on the podcast we’re recapping the latest NHRL qualifier, held Aug. 12, 2023 in Norwalk, CT, with 12-pound champion Jake Hoffmann! We take a look at the big, unexpected storylines from the c

This week on the podcast we’re previewing the August 2023 NHRL qualifier with Ryan and Justin Hunter, who help run the pit control desk at the league. We’ll talk about who we’re excited to see return

Enjoy this rewind from July 2020! This week on the podcast, we catch up two incredible engineers—Chomp captain Zoe Stephenson and teammate Jascha Little! Zoe and Jascha are a wife-and-husband team

This week on the podcast, we recap NHRL's June event - and discuss the upcoming OpenSauce convention with Sam Hanson!   We'll be back on break next week, but hope to see you at OpenSauce!

*This episode, including the news and interview, is a rerun from February 2020* This week on the podcast, we go big - literally - with a story so crazy it’s almost hard to believe. Cofounder Matt Oe

This is a re-run of our interview from May 2021.   See you when break is over!

This week on the podcast — a very special crossover episode, with our dear friends at The RoboCast and Outside of the Box. This season, we’re taking your hot takes, mixing them with our hot takes… it’

This week on the podcast, we’re chatting with WCVII Giant Nut runner-up — Jonathan Schultz, captain of HUGE! We ask him what filming this season felt like, his plan to face (and make!) attachments, an

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with the man of the hour — BattleBots World Championship 7 Giant Nut winner Jamison Go, captain of SawBlaze. We ask him what his secret to success was this

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with longtime friend of the pod Will Bales, captain of the electric green vert HyperShock, at the end of their regular season run on BattleBots. We talk tec

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with Quantum captains (and brothers) James and Grant Cooper, fresh off their exit in the Round of 32. We explore Quantum’s unique and generative design, wha

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with Shatter captain Adam Wrigley to reflect on Season 7 of BattleBots, which just completed its first round of World Championship 7. We’ll briefly talk abo

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with Valkyrie captain and NHRL mainstay Lucy Du, to recap her first season as a BattleBots captain, and what’s next for her powerful undercutter. We also ta

This week on the podcast, we’re previewing May NHRL with Community Director Gil Hova! We take a look back at episode 14 of BattleBots — as another 14 robots complete their qualifying rounds.   Follow

This week on the podcast, we have the honor, the pleasure, nay the delight of interviewing our friend Shreddit Bro captain Evan Arias! Shreddit Bro came up through NHRL, back when we were standing aro

This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Kevin Milczewski, captain of the zippy little control bot that’s captured our hearts, Claw Viper. We talk about growing up in the Hudson Valley, how he design

This week on the podcast, we’re joined by a very special guest co-host, Mammoth team member Brandon Bennett Young! Brandon has been in the combat robotics game since high school, runs multiple robots

Sorry for the late upload - we had some technical difficulties!   This week on the podcast, we’re diving into Season 10, Episode 3, which was a slippery one.    Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts Te

This week on the podcast, we’re taking almost all of your questions in a special AMA episode to commemorate our 4-year anniversary on the pod. No BattleBots this week — we’ll be back with our recap of

This week on the podcast, we’re diving into Season 7, Episode 10 of BattleBots, which was a spicy one. We explore the difference between legality and ethics, and the community’s unwritten code of cond

This week on the podcast, we’re diving into Season 7, Episode 9 of BattleBots, with official Match Steward Mike Jeffries. Mike is a longtime combat robot builder, who most recently competed on BattleB

This week on the podcast, we’re diving into Season 7, Episode 8 of BattleBots, which was very exciting indeed. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to book a guest this week, so it’s just a lil’ minisode wi

This week on the podcast, we’re diving into Season 7, Episode 7 of BattleBots, with our friend and NHRL cohost Ricky Willems. Ricky will break down his most recent fight with Starchild, and reflect on

This week on the podcast, we’re diving into Season 7, Episode 6 of BattleBots. We’re also catching up with Hijinx Captian Jen Herchenroder to discuss the recently aired match against Captain Shrederat

This week on the podcast, we’re diving into Season 7, Episode 5 of BattleBots. We’re also catching up with Mad Catter and Lynx driver Calvin Iba to discuss the match and controversy surrounding Riptid

This week on the podcast, we’re diving into Season 7, Episode 4 of BattleBots. We’re also catching up with Malice captain Bunny Liaw and her teammate/husband David, as BattleBots prepares to launch an

This week on the podcast, we’re diving into Season 7, Episode 3 of BattleBots, with special guest Tim Bouwens, the captain of Ominous! Ominous is a gorgeous, three-wheeled omnidrive robot from the Net

This week on the podcast, we’re diving into Season 7, Episode 2 of BattleBots. We break down the episode with Switchback captain Greg Needel, whose bot has gone through the ultimate glow-up for its so

This week on the podcast, we’re diving into Season 7, Episode 1 of BattleBots, which aired Jan. 5, 2023 on the Discovery Channel. We break down the episode with the one and only Pete Abrahamson, aka T

This week on the podcast, we’re wrapping up our coverage of the BattleBots 7 rookies with the gorgeous, ambitious, very purple dual horizontal Horizon. Team captain Joshua Kong first tested the design

This week on the podcast, we’re continuing our coverage of the BattleBots 7 rookies with the murderous little vacuum cleaner that could — Doomba! We talk BattleBots, the metagame behind BattleBots, an

This week on the podcast, we’re continuing our coverage of the BattleBots 7 rookies with the Italian side of the Team Omega family — Ripperoni! This pizza-themed robot features a neat little innovatio

This week on the podcast, we’re continuing our coverage of the BattleBots 7 rookies with the Alien-inspired big-wheeled thwack-vert of our dreams, Starchild! Team captain Brandon Zalinsky spent over a

This week on the podcast, we’re continuing our coverage of the BattleBots 7 rookies with Ben Burton, captain of the Triceratops-inspired TerrorTops! We talk dinosaurs, robots, and robot dinosaurs.   F

This week on the podcast, we’re continuing our coverage of the BattleBots 7 rookies with the quirky, kilt-wearing captain David Small and his brand-new heavyweight flipper bot Banshee. David built rob

This week on the podcast, we’re continuing our coverage of the BattleBots 7 rookies with one of the most-anticipated robots of the season — Emulsifier. This robot, from the builders at Bots FC, began

This week on the podcast, we’re kicking off 10 weeks of BattleBots 7 rookies, with Doom captain Alejandro Pina. Doom is an articulated hammersaw mounted atop sloped wedges. Alejandro spent more than a

This week on the podcast, we’re focusing on the lifeblood of our sport — local combat robotics leagues. We’ll talk with the organizers behind the Midwest Robot Combat Association (MRCA), which launche

This week on the podcast, we’re coming to you live from the pits at BattleBots! Chris, Lindsay and Luke are working on the pit crews for Copperhead and Shreddit Bro, and are taking all of your burning

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with Team Ostrich Air, builders of the rookie bot Double Tap! The team just shipped their bot to Las Vegas, and will fight in their first combat robotics ma

This week on the podcast, we’re sitting down with longtime builder and perpetual fan favorite Marc DeVidts, captain of ICEwave! Marc began building combat robots more than 20 years ago, but really roa

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with the winner of the 30-pound division at September’s Norwalk Havoc — Yahoo captain slash Copperhead team member slash pet store owner slash giant pumpkin

This week on the podcast, we’ve got a brief little, guestless mini-sode, while we recover from September Norwalk Havoc. We’ll recap the latest event, share our top personal highlights, and get you hyp

This week on the podcast, we’re diving deep into the just-revealed Season 7 of the show — which will film in Las Vegas Oct. 18 through Oct. 30 — with BattleBots cofounder and friend of the pod Greg Mu

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up again with longtime BattleBots builder Brad Hanstad, to get an exclusive early look at his new heavyweight Triton, the spiritual successor to Deep Six. Oh,

This week on the podcast, we’re diving deep into all things Kraken with one of our favorite builders of all time, Kraken captain Matt Spurk! This week, Matt made the surprise announcement that he plan

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up again with Kyle Miller, captain of the surprisingly effective rookie bot Glitch. Glitch went undefeated in the qualifying rounds during Season 6 of BattleBo

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up again with one of our favorite builders of all time, Deep Six captain Dustin Esswein! Dustin’s design philosophy is simple — weapons first, everything else

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with longtime combat robotics builder John Mladenik, captain of Gigabyte and Cobalt on S6 of BattleBots. John and his team have essentially perfected the he

This week on the podcast, we’re traveling to Worcester, Massachusetts to take a deep dive on Team WPI, the supergroup whose team members sit on half a dozen BattleBots teams, and have multiple first-p

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with Norwalk Havoc head referee Jim Heaney, who is stepping away from henchman life to return to school. We also recap Norwalk Havoc’s July 2022 competition

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with Shatter captain Adam Wrigley, on the eve of his Norwalk Havoc debut (July 16 and 17 in Norwalk, Connecticut, or catch it streamed live on YouTube!). We

This week on the podcast, we’re headed to Las Vegas, where BattleBots just wrapped up a special one-day tournament, sponsored by the Amazon Re:MARS conference. Eight bots faced off, in hopes of taking