Walkerbots



Walkerbots are competitor robots which use legs rather than wheels to move around the arena. A major advantage is that they are allowed to double the weight limit, making them much more difficult to flip. A disadvantage is that they cannot usually have much in the way of weaponry, and are usually very slow and hard to control.

The walkerbots throughout Robot Wars history are:


 * Millennium Bug
 * Mammoth (Lightweight)
 * Mammoth (Featherweight)
 * Jim Struts/Miss Struts
 * Anarchy
 * Clawed Hopper
 * Eleven
 * Arachnid
 * Black Widow
 * Stomp
 * RT81



Anarchy was by far the most successful walker in Robot Wars, winning an award for best engineering, having above average handling and speed by walkers' standards, and having decent weaponry. It made the Heat Final in Series 6 and only lost to Tornado. The only other walker to pass round one in the main UK series was Clawed Hopper, which reached round 2 of its heat in Series 5 and lost to Pussycat.

A variation of the walker does away with the legs, instead having sections, or "banks", of feet in line with each other. Although never seen in the UK, several international robots, most notably the American Drillzilla and the German Ansgar, utilised this "shuffling" mechanism. Unlike true walkers, shufflers tended to be much faster and had more room for efficient weapons, as well as being much more sucessful.