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Cassius, a competitor robot from the second and third series, was a wedge-shaped robot from Stowmarket in Suffolk. Its main weapon was a forward-hinged flipping ram which had enough power to overturn even many of the house robots. Cassius reached the Grand Final in Series 2, where it placed second overall after being pitted by Panic Attack in the final battle.

Although not the first robot to attempt it, Cassius was the first robot to successfully use a self-righting mechanism, or srimech. Cassius was created by former children's TV presenter Rex Garrod. He was very much a sporting person, and would prefer to attack a house robot rather than a competitor that had already been beaten.

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