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Typhoon 2 was a robot that competed in the British television game show Robot Wars. It was a full-body spinning robot described as a UFV (Unmanned Fighting Vehicle) with four cutting blades capable of shattering the arena wall, which it did on two separate occasions. The robot competed in and won the seventh series of Robot Wars after failing to qualify for the previous war.

It was created by cadets from the Air Training Corps and painted to resemble the RAF crest to interest young people in engineering. The robot featured duplex systems based on the principle of most modern aircraft, where that the four wheels that were independently driven by four motors were split into two each so if the machine lost drive to one side, it would still be able to fight.

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