WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get, pronounced Wiz-ee-wig) was a robot that competed in the British television show Robot Wars. It was a wedge shaped wooden robot painted white with a black Starsky & Hutch style stripe along the top and sides. It had no weapons but was very manoeuvrable and nippy and was built for superior acceleration. WYSIWYG was the only featherweight to appear outside the featherweight heat of the First Wars.

Along with Grunt and The Mouse, WYSIWYG was a stock robot brought in to make up the numbers for that series, and was not allowed to reach the arena stages. It was created by first series judge Eric Dickinson. Driver Michelle Wheeley later joined the Cruella team for Series 2. Eric Dickinson also competed with WYSIWYG in American Robot Wars '96.

In the modern day, Team Dalek are making their own version of WYSIWYG, which is completely the same to the stock robot stats and design wise, but is a new build of it and will be partly painted indigo. They are also making an antweight version of Psychosprout.

Series 1
WYSIWYG was the fourth robot to compete in Heat C. In the Gauntlet, WYSIWYG chose the centre route but got stuck on the edge of the ramp. Shunt went in to free the robot but got stuck himself. Shunt was pushed off the ramp which in turn pushed WYSIWYG free. WYSIWYG then went for the maze route but only manage to hit the fences. WYSIWYG came fifth after covering 5.55m. In the Football Trial, WYSIWYG was eliminated after allegedly being the least possessive competitor, as it spent much of each round attempting to push all other competitors out of the way of the ball.

Results

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Wins/Losses

 * Wins: 0
 * Losses: 1

Series Record

 * Series 1: Heat, Trial
 * Series 2-7: Did not enter

Trivia

 * WYSIWYG was the only one of the three Series 1 Stock Robots to fail to complete the Gauntlet.
 * WYSIWYG was the only featherweight not to compete in Heat D, or a featherweight competition.
 * WYSIWYG is one of 20 robots never to fight in robot combat, having only ever been in the Gauntlet or Trial.