Carbide

Carbide is an invertible heavyweight which competed in the 2016 series of Robot Wars. It was built by Dave Moulds, as well as Sam Smith, who had previously competed in Robot Wars with Tiberius.

Carbide's weapon is the most powerful bar spinner in Robot Wars history, measuring 85cm in length, weighing 25kg and spinning at 2300RPM. The weapon operates at 20 horsepower to inflict massive damage. Carbide's armour consists of 4.5mm military grade steel, and 8mm aerospace grade aluminium.

According to the Robot Wars website, Team Carbide rate their chances of winning the series at '10 out of 10', and the robot features heavily in promotional trailers.

2016 series
Carbide will appear in Episode 1, where it will battle Behemoth, Bonk and The General in its first-round melee.

Results

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Series Record
Team captain Dave Moulds was a newcomer to Robot Wars, so co-builder/designer Sam Smith's record is displayed
 * Series 1-3: Did not enter
 * Series 4: Entered with Tiberius
 * Series 5: Entered with Tiberius 2
 * Series 6-7: Entered with Tiberius 3
 * 2016 Series: Entered

Outside Robot Wars
Dave Moulds was a participant in ABC's rebooted series of BattleBots, as part of Team Robo Challenge with Beta, although Beta could not compete due to parts being lost in travel.

Around the same time that Team Carbide developed Carbide for Robot Wars, the same team were also producing a heavyweight for Season 2 of ABC's BattleBots, Cobalt. Both Carbide and Cobalt are extremely similar in shape and design, but Cobalt uses a sharper, axe-like bar spinner, and both robots feature different internals. Cobalt uses a white and blue colour scheme, over the black and green used by Cobalt. In its first round battle, Cobalt was drawn against Overhaul, a reasonably successful robot from the previous year. Cobalt's spinner reached top speed very quickly, and a series of attacks were launched onto Overhaul, all of which deflected Cobalt away due to the shape of Overhaul's lifter. A set screw became stuck in Overhaul's locomotion, rendering it immobile, putting Cobalt through to the second round, further than Photon Storm, Team Storm's rebuilt version of Sam Smith's past heavyweight Tiberius.