Formula was a robot from London in the United Kingdom, which competed in Season 1.5, the debut of This is Fighting Robots. Team Precision are also known as Team RAPID, representatives of the London-based corporation RPD International. Formula is named after the Formula One racecar circuit.
Design
Concept design for Formula, initially known as "Thrust"
Formula is designed to look like a high-speed car, and represents this with interactive lighting, a visible "windshield" across the robot's wedge, and a spoiler at the rear, with the team's surnames also printed onto the robot. Forumla is wedge shaped in order to lead into its full-pressure flipper, boasting 7500kg of power. Two exposed wedges are present at either side of Formula, to prevent the wedge of the flipper being damaged. Formula is remarkably fast at 40k/h (24mph), and can self-right using its weapon.
Robot History
This is Fighting Robots (Season 1.5)
Entering as a challenger, Formula fought its fellow UK machine 008 for a chance to qualify.
The two robots met each other in the middle of the arena, sparks flying as 008 flywheel bounced of Formula's flipper. Going on another attack, Formula then got underneath 008, but failed to flip it and had its decorative spoiler destroyed as 008 drew over it. Chasing After it some more, Formula finally managed to get its flipper into play as it threw 008 alongside the wall.
As the battle continued, 008 seemed to be slowing down with fire visible bellowing from its insides. Approaching each other tentatively, Formula once again collided with 008's still working flywheel, sending shards of the machine flying across the arena. By now, the damage sustained to Formula seemed to have goten to it as only seemed capable of driving backwards and forwards, but 008 was clearly in not much better condition. As it limped forwards towards the heavily damaged Formula, it seemed to manage to wedge itself onto its own flywheel, smoke now also rising from the white machine. The countdown started, and since Formula was at-least showing some movement, 008 was the one declared KO'ed. Formula was subsequently declared the winner of the match, and got to enter the competition as part of the yellow team.
Results
| FORMULA - RESULTS | ||
| This is Fighting Robots (Season 1.5) | ||
| Main Championship | ||
| Challenge Round | vs. 008 | Won |
Wins/Losses
- Wins: 1
- Losses: 0
Series Record
| Series | Formula Series Record |
|---|---|
| Season 1 | Did not enter |
| Season 1.5 | Qualified |
| Season 2 | Did not enter |
Outside King of Bots
Anticide
Team driver Andy Hibberd entered UK robotics in the antweight circuit. He built an antweight flipper named Anticide, which found great success, becoming a six-time antweight world series champion. During the 53rd Antweight World Series, Anticide finished third. Hibberd also built Kwijebo, a shufflebot armed with a vertical drum, previously a vertical spinning disc, Nom Nom Nom, which is armed with a vertical spinner, and Ickle, a fleaweight version of Kwijebo.
RAPID
This prior experience allowed Hibberd to scale up the design of Anticide into a heavyweight flipper, RAPID. Andy Hibberd and Letitia Steer collaborated with team captain Josh Valman to enter Series 9 of Robot Wars with RAPID, emphatically winning their first-round melee over Nuts 2 and Jellyfish, but the robot was damaged beyond repair by Aftershock in the second round, leading to an early withdrawal. RAPID was much more successful in Series 10, throwing Track-tion out of the arena twice in two consecutive battles, before also throwing Terrorhurtz out of the arena to reach the Grand Final. There, RAPID lost its opening melee to Eruption, and caught fire in battle with Carbide, to finish in fifth place.
Trivia
- Head of RPD International, Josh Valman, also intended to join the televised team, but was unable to attend filming on the required dates.
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