Battlebots, the most brutally destructive robot fighting competition in the world.
And this one.
This one's ours.
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You guys have been bugging me to build a battle bot for years now.
Unfortunately, building a battle bot is a full time job.
So when a local university reached out asking for sponsorship,
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Welcome.
Nice to meet you.
Hello. We are the Waterloo Battlebots team.
We are hoping to pitch to you on the first aid battle lot.
We already had decided
we were sponsoring the team, assuming their idea was reasonable.
So we're kind of sitting there, posturing, sitting back in our nice chairs
with, ah, a notepad, trying to stressing out a little bit.
So they had stuff running in a simulator, running the same code
that they plan to run on the robot and on the drive station already
running in a simulator, running in unity that really proved that they have
what it takes to write the autonomous code that they were planning.
I think the picture was really well put together.
There was a lot more design that was already completed and finalized
and there was a couple of renders and figured out like how everything's
going to go together, how are things going to work?
Was really, really critical.
So yeah, we all know
this is actually briefcase of fake money.
Okay, guys. Jack.
This is amazing.
Thank you guys so much. From.
Talking to them. Thank you.
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This is our about about Orbitz or Petronas, a dual vertical spinner
with a soft writing arm on top.
The big thing that attracted me to Arbitron was their use of AI.
This has never been done before
in Battlebots and Battlebots is pretty much all about human reflexes.
And you know, it's faster than human reflexes. Computers.
They have this design.
It can literally, by holding
a button, just orbit around the enemy wherever the enemy is going.
And then you just press a button called kill,
and I'll just be lying right into that bot.
So if this works, that could change battlebots forever.
Steven isn't the robot.
Peter is doing a lot with the software.
Then we have Adam, Ethan, Layla and Matthew.
They're going to be helping with the electronics,
the software, a bit more machining assembly.
Stephen and Peter, who are brothers, actually got second place
at the First World Championship in 2018.
And if that wasn't good enough, the next year in 2019, they took home
first place.
They are literally world champions at robotics.
And besides our two lead designers being first world champions,
everyone on the team has competitive robotics experience.
In addition to the student team, Bogdan and Ben, who will be helping
mentor the team, are seasoned robotics competitors.
So besides footing the bill for most of what they need, we're also able
to connect them with all of our sponsors and manufacturing partners,
enabling the team to get heavy discounts and sometimes even free components.
When the team came to us, they had received sponsorship
from the University of Waterloo about $10,000.
Rapid Enterprises.
They're doing a machine frame component for us.
I'll do a few 3D printers to the team at the university.
There's Maxim's.
Maxim's is the premiere battery supplier for Battlebots Tramps as well.
They are one of the most popular AC manufacturers for them
tools, the local machine shop.
They're the ones that machine some of the aluminum pieces.
Princess Auto,
one of our main channel
sponsors, spruce and gift cards that the team use for supplies.
That always feels like the next step up from whatever I've done.
I think we're all super excited because it's a really fun sport
and I think it's something we can do really well in.
Most teams
when they want to compete in Battlebots, they start in the lower weight classes.
We're jumping straight to £50.
We're going straight to the top.
Whenever you're starting a big complex project
like this, the first thing to do is you want a prototype.
So we've had Steven send us the CAD files for the whole frame.
We're going to be 3D printing them on our bamboo labs printers.
We're going to put it together, see how it goes
together, see what changes we need to make,
make sure the design works, and we'll go from that.
So up to this point, we've made the plastic board.
We 3D printed it here and Peter's been working on a lot of the software.
Now we're validating that against the plastic bar at our shop.
So waiting for a metal frame
piece to come in and then full steam ahead on the chassis Now.
Peter Yeah, what do we have here?
I just went with it
so we got Wow.
So right now,
almost there.
We're on our way down.
The Rock Enterprises and Vonn, they've generously sponsored about a box team
by making us our main frame components to prepare, feel solid,
backing them up.
So we're about a month away from the competition.
We're still missing the main metal components chassis.
Those should be here mid-next week.
We clip the chassis together
for now, we're still testing driving the plastic all around.
We now have the camera set up trying to track its movement with the gyro
and we finally got the weapon motors last week.
So we hook those up to the surface
and we're going to spend them out for the first time.
Our frame pieces finally showed up.
It's time to put the chassis together.
Some of the holes aren't drilled,
so we're going to have to mark those and drill them, tap them ourselves.
The chassis went together as intended.
We've got the wheels on, no motors, no electronics
yet, but that'll come the next time goes together.
We're still a little worried about the way we wait it in.
We are,
we think, reasonable,
but it's still there's a lot of metal there
and there's a lot more that has to come.
So today we want to get the electronics in the bottle
or at least start getting them tested and see what our wires look like, all that.
We also want to get this spinner assembly tested without the spinners.
We're still waiting for the actual spinners to come in.
We're and if next week is the goal, so more time crunches.
But we want to get the motors mounted.
We want to get the motor spinning
and we want to get the pulleys in to validate our belt length.
So make sure the balance of tension and I'm very excited to see this
do inappropriate things to other things.
Can we talk about this power adapter right here?
This just hanging. Loosely?
Oh, that's chaos.
Well, apparently that's fine and it's normal, so.
Yeah, So.
All right. Sorry. What you're going to show me.
Okay, so this is our robot controller. Mm.
And right now, this is the field in simulation.
And as you can see here, the field is not quite aligned
with the corners of our movie.
So what we can do now is adjust these around so that they line up.
So in the field, when we set up the camera,
we don't have to set it up exactly.
We can just mentally adjust it to whatever we need.
Something tells me you've done this before.
You don't like to brag, but.
A little bit.
Out there, we got our first working demo of the autonomous driving,
so we have a simple two control schemes.
We got avoid and kill them fairly,
right?
So that was totally automatic and it nicely aligned it.
So then I don't have I'm not going to overshoot the.
Scope of it.
So I see
I can see it on all of my left and right all the time here from
not only to this one is walking.
The tires of shifting.
We're not exactly sure why.
Ethan has a good point in that we did not see
and these are degrees them before we cancel them.
So this is likely a bonding issue
because we want the polyurethane to adhere to the actual core as well.
But I would think that the physical grooves you can see
there would hold it ion laterally, but that's not the case.
Mark Like literally.
I'm just taking the rubber off as it just came off.
We've gone and made some changes.
We took the wheel, we sandblasted it.
So now we got a nice rough surface that the earth and have a nice good grab on.
We're tapping these holes and we're going to install these big ones
like tread locks
that are going to go in here and the urethane
is going to be cast around to help the hold the wheel on and we're properly
decreasing the parts, removing all the the oils, anything off the surface.
So it should stick amazingly or should stick a lot better than I did last time.
Are you hiding the dread and anxiety that comes with building
bail bond for a company?
So I've been building competitive robots for eight years at this point.
I mean, I'm good at suppressing those feelings.
If you break the momentum you ever had it done, you just you see a problem,
You got to fix it. All you can do.
All right?
These guys get at suppressing their feelings about the brother.
All of them have also done competitive robotics for four or five years.
So help out.
Seems like it.
You're not nervous over there, are you?
You're looking nervous. I think it'll be okay.
Are you nervous, Morgan?
No, I've altered uncompetitive robotics. I
like.
This.
Just because you've done competitive robotics
doesn't mean you've won competitions for competitors.
Actually, I am the champion of Canada for mechatronics and.
And skills.
Wow. Brag about.
Gee whiz, out.
It from the bottom.
You say, check this out and then you start doing it.
And then nothing happened.
I didn't see the champion of robotics.
I thought they were in here.
The product is already okay.
I worked in a team of two, not in a team of like eight.
Yeah.
And the other person started all the work.
Yeah.
You know, I had to replace the tripod, right?
All right.
Spinner showed up.
Let's go.
See, This is only the most important part of the robot.
It's the last missing piece of the puzzle.
Yeah.
So do you guys know who your competition is?
They are a giant horizontal spinner.
So our spinners go on this axis, so they spin up like that.
Theirs is much bigger.
It's probably the width of our robot, and then it spins like that.
Does it have a name?
It is roundhouse and
this is.
This is our bot.
We thought this was moderately sized and this is
this is the size of round Hess's weapon.
Roughly.
It's bigger than our every dimension.
The question is can we take one big hit from weapon that was £80?
Is that long and not wide and
like I'm pretty sure it's comparable to the amount of energy in Tombstone
and we've seen what robots of this size
and just as robust build
have I've taken from Tombstone and it's not pretty.
So Bogdan, how's your confidence now?
What's the confidence level now that you've seen the weapon?
If we survive,
we're in really good shape for the actual competition.
Because it used to the camera yet or are you guys still freaked out?
But it's different still.
It's kind of cool to show off the process.
I'd say.
Because I had like cyborgs.
Okay, what have we changed from last time we.
Changed the tires, which you can't see, but internally they're different.
That's the main thing for performance wise.
Otherwise, there's some paint on there.
It's assembled a little bit nicer.
So yeah, the real thing we want to test right now is if we turn to the tires,
do you laminate the come off the sides.
Now what are we going to do better?
We're going to make it faster. It's going to zoom.
How much how much power do you have now?
Even 30%.
Are you scary?
Yes, because I don't know which way is forward.
Versus just feel a hand.
He can't
you know, we're a little more hurt, you see.
Is it 34 degrees batteries?
Good.
Still no issues.
We are installing first.
Better ever shaft
bigger
as you see.
Because then.
That's balanced.
It's asymmetric, but it's balanced because you have the tooth over here.
So that's a lot of extra mass.
And so then on this side,
if you notice, this pocket is a little bit shallower in the side ones.
So then the center of mass is still on the axis.
So even though it's asymmetric, you'll see it doesn't fall to any one point.
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Make them take the most events and combine them in 20 years.
So basically yesterday
we got most of this thing together and try to run some calibration on the motor.
And what we think happened is one of the logs is a little bit loose
and because of that, a combination value was off.
So when we try to run the second part of the calibration, a bit of the motor
that completely fried the motor controller because I was trying to run more power
than I was supposed to, and now it looks and smells really bad and no longer works.
Luckily we figured out what some of the issues
were and figured out how to do it properly.
And now that we know how to do it, we can replace all the speed controllers,
re extend all the wires and hopefully get the role by driving by tomorrow.
As the stress level with the blobs last night.
These are
these are $700 S's and we only have four spares.
We are ordering more.
But at this rate
or two in the last two days, it's fine
by the competition will be out. By
and you can let go number
and we are.
All systems test spinners up to full speed drive full speed.
We're going to see how it behaves in kind of the more dynamic condition
with the spinner spinning, with the robot spinning.
And then we'll worry about that one.
I told Tyler,
this is the most expensive thing he's probably ever for, for it to be for.
One of the main tests
we want to do right now is to see if having both spinners on
during a turn will probably cancel the gyroscopic procession.
So theoretically, with just one spinner, when you turn the robot really quickly,
one of the wheels will lift off the ground.
With two, there should be absolutely no effect.
Oh, I see what $20,000 can do.
Like a plane taking off.
Oh, hey.
Let's go.
That's the whole reason we do it to spinners is that's been
right there in.
It's the domestic robot from Warframe.
We built the small prototype for them,
but then we want to make it bigger for their 10th anniversary celebration.
Warframe is an amazing game with space combat and aliens and robots.
It's exactly what we're into.
If you don't get that back going, you guys have to forfeit the match.
You know that, right?
Oh, boy.
Oh. Oh, oh.
And so this is all fun and games.
We need a real opponent
such as an unbreakable box,
half inch polycom, double layer.
You got stainless steel walls,
unbreakable
byebye and breakable box.
Oh. Oh, yeah.
I thought I'm not going to that.
I launched it.
And shattered the folly of that.
That's hard to do.
It's really hard to do
one chunk of half inch Polycarp
This is bullet resistant.
All right, the bot is done and we are cutting it close.
We got to drive this RV
72 hours to Las Vegas in order to make it there for our flight.
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