Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal is a robot which competed in Series 9 of Robot Wars. It was built by Team 13, who previously competed with 13 Black and Limpet. Heavy Metal was originally planned to enter Series 8, but was not accepted while the robot was still in the design phase. To reflect the robot’s name, Team 13 carry inflatable instruments on the show.

Design
"They have designed a ‘never-been-seen-before’ robot, that has the ability to change it’s weaponry in a matter of seconds between a spinner, flipper, thwack bot or a large drill."

- The Robot Wars website

Heavy Metal uses a unique blue and pink colour-scheme, and is primarily an offensive wedge, backed up by its high speed. In terms of active weaponry, it features an articulating arm with interchangeable weaponry, including two blades for pinning robots in place, a rectangular blade for keeping other robots away while also making Heavy Metal a thwackbot, and spinning weaponry. The arm can also turn Heavy Metal over. Heavy Metal is two-wheel driven and invertible, and the wheels are made of metal, but are highly exposed.

Its colour-scheme is an homage to the cover art of one of the first heavy metal albums, Paranoid by Black Sabbath.

Series 9
Heavy Metal will compete in Episode 3.

Results

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Outside Robot Wars
Heavy Metal’s only appearance outside of Robot Wars was at the Robots Live! event in Stevenage. The largely unfinished chassis was brought to the event, where the team also competed with their featherweight, Clank 5. The team’s current lighter robots include Clank, a featherweight armed with a full pressure flipper which won the UK Annihilator in 2016, and antweight robots named Ant Ratchet and Ant Clank, which are based on the popular Sony PlayStation series Ratchet & Clank. Team 13 are currently building Nefarious, a horizontal spinner and named after a major villain from the aforementioned series, for the Beetleweight category.