Apollo

Apollo is a white, chequered wedge-shaped robot with a powerful flipper, running at 1000psi, which competed in the 2016 series of Robot Wars. It was built by Team MAD, who previously entered Featherweight Championships of Robot Wars with Flybot, Gladiator and Alpha, and the Antweight Championship in Extreme 2 with Chroma and Hades.

Apollo's flipper is capable of throwing a 100kg heavyweight six feet into the air, and would cause the robot to somersault when self-righting. For this reason, the flipper also has a half-power option, for ease of use as a srimech. Apollo's ground clearance is the width of a pound coin (around 3mm).

Apollo was built by Dave Young, Marc Dermott, Ben Bacon, and also Team MAD's usual captain, Alan Young, who owns Apollo and competes with it at Robots Live! events, which are run by Team MAD. However, Alan Young could not be a member of Apollo's team in the 2016 series, due to his involvement with the production of the programme.

Apollo is named after the famous series of space missions whose purpose is to land on the moon by the United States before the former Soviet Union, with the colour scheme to match. The robot's design is modeled after Chronic, a BattleBots entry built by Alan Young, although the two robots are completely separate builds.

2016 Series
Apollo appeared in Episode 4, where in the first round, it was drawn against Kan-Opener, PP3D, and Sweeney Todd.

Results

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Wins/Losses

 * Wins: 4
 * Losses: 1

Series Record

 * Series 1-6: Did not enter
 * Series 7: Withdrew before qualifiers with Merlin, Featherweight Championship with Alpha and G2.
 * 2016 Series: Entered

Outside Robot Wars
Apollo's history is embedded within Robot Wars competitor Kronic the Wedgehog. After Kronic competed in Robot Wars: The Seventh Wars, it was rebuilt by Team Kronic as Kronic 3, with a considerably improved flipper. It enjoyed much success, winning the Roaming Robots Winter Tour in 2005. In May 2010, Kronic 3 was sold to Team BlazerBotics, who earned the robot much success, having become the Annihilator Champion in 2010 and 2011. The team's BattleBots entry, Chronic was based on this robot, and in turn, Apollo is based upon Chronic.