Caliban

Caliban was a small cylinder shaped robot that was entered in Series 2. It dramatically ended its Gauntlet run after debuting house robot Sir Killalot picked it up while Caliban was spinning and the weapons exploded. Caliban has the dubious title of being the worst performing robot in the history of The Gauntlet.

Caliban could have been the first Full Body Spinner to take part in a televised showing of Robot Wars, but the team took off the body spinner to use its top mounted flail, so its body spinner was never seen in action.

Jackson Wallop, a robot similar in design to Caliban's flail form, was entered by Team Battlebot in Series 7.

It was named after the monster from Shakespeare's play, The Tempest.

There was also a Caliban 2 listed for entry in The Third Wars, however this is likely to have been renamed Daisy Chopper, or scrapped in favour of it.

Series 2
Caliban chose the House Robot (right-hand side) route and displayed poor steering control. It firstly drove into a spike, then hit one of the distance markers, later destroying it, before running into Killalot, who picked it up by its own weapon and overturned it, pushing it backwards until just after cease was called. Caliban finished poorly, with a run of 0.2 metres. Apparently Sir Killalot also cut away one of their wheels, although this was never shown on TV. "Sir Killalot closes in though! Can he stop that flail, flail... rock and roll! Caliban dead and buried."

- Jonathan Pearce as Caliban is flipped by Sir Killalot.

Results

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Wins/Losses

 * Wins: 0
 * Losses: 1

Series Record

 * Series 1: Did not enter
 * Series 2: Heat, Gauntlet
 * Series 3: Entered with Daisy Chopper
 * Series 4: Failed to qualify with Daisy Chopper
 * Seriees 5-7: Did not enter