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Featherweights The Featherweight category in Robot Wars was one that had been largely overlooked until it was heavily promoted through the Young Engineers in the BT Robot Challenge. Team Storm were enlisted as technical consultants to the robot challenge and it gave us the desire to try to see just how we could develop some robots in the class to show people just what could be done in 12Kg
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Vortex was built in 2003 and is still one of the most effective
spinner featherweight robots. With an S28-150 Magmotor
delivering the same power as the Heavyweight robot Hypnodisc driving
a 2Kg disk Vortex was simply unstoppable once it got hold of you.
Vortex was known for its cast-iron reliability and it rarely lost a
fight. Today Vortex is retired, but you never know when you
might see the old veteran returning. Vortex was to
featherweights what Hypnodisc was to heavyweights, a total change
from dull lumbering featherweights into something seriously scary. For more details on Vortex as well as video footage, click here
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X (Force 10) pre-dates Storm Vortex and goes back even further
being built in last 2001/2002. It was the first featherweight
to use the 'Bosch 35w' motors that can now be seen in many
featherweights and the first featherweight to deliver a weapon other
than a simple lifter. Delivering over 750Kg of crush from the
same linear actuators that the likes of Suicidal Tendencies used on
their heavyweight robot, Force X gave a first glimpse into what
could be done in this featherweight weight category. For more details on Force X as well as video footage, click here
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Storm haven't given up on the featherweight category and have a
number of projects which are embryonic including Horizon a
horizontal spinner concept we created about 2 years ago that would
still be class leading today as well as Storm IIB, a mini
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