Luzifer

Luzifer is a heavyweight robot, belonging to a German team, The Devil Crew. Although the team did not participate in the original run of Robot Wars, Luzifer applied for the 2016 series of Robot Wars, although it failed to qualify.

Luzifer's design is heavily based on Sewer Snake, featuring a strong four-wheeled drive for pushing power, and a combination of lifters for weaponry. Luzifer uses its three grounded prongs to get far underneath a robot, lift the opponent backwards onto the top of the robot, and then overturn them with a top-mounted rear-hinged lifting bar. This can also be used as a self-righting mechanism, despite the robot being invertible. Although this weapon was made famous by Sewer Snake, Luzifer would be the first robot on Robot Wars to use the mechanism, should it qualify.

At first, it seemed as though Luzifer would be unable to attempt to gain entry to new series, due to the difficulty of transporting the robot from Germany to Scotland. Despite initial worries, The Devil Crew found a way to work around this, and submitted their application to take part. Despite this, Luzifer was still not selected to compete.

Luzifer can be seen as the spiritual successor to the incumbent German Robot Wars champion, Black Hole. After Robot Wars began its 12-year hiatus, a newly rebuilt Black Hole 2, with a much higher emphasis on pushing power, was sold to TheDevilCrew, who rebuilt the robot as Luzifer in 2003. The current build of Luzifer in 2016 has little-to-no relation to Black Hole 2.

The name Luzifer is presumably based on the German interpretation of Lucifer, the name of the devil in Christian tradition.

Robot Wars Live Events
Luzifer's first battle at a Robot Wars live event was the Colchester event of 2015. It would later represent Germany in the Robot Wars World Championship of 2015, where it fought in a five-way melee. Luzifer outlasted Behemoth, Weird mAlice, Meggamouse, and another robot, but was defeated by Ripper on a Judges' decision.

Outside Robot Wars
At various robotic live events, Luzifer has had the chance to fight Tsunami, like spiritual predecessor Black Hole did in the German Wars Grand Final. Luzifer also competed in the 2012 RoboGames.

Series Record

 * Series 1-7: Did not enter
 * 2016 series: Failed to qualify

Trivia

 * Luzifer and Beelzebub are currently the only attempted Robot Wars entrants to have a name directly inspired by Christian tradition, if Hellbent and Torque of the Devil are ignored due to their names being real words or phrases. Coincidentally, both Luzifer and Beelzebub are names based on The Devil.
 * Perhaps a less likely source of inspiration for the robot's name, yet still a coincidence, is the Luzifer chain of restaurants in Germany.