The Kegs

The Kegs was a Clusterbot which competed in Series 10 of Robot Wars, built by Team Terror Turtle. The robots were built from beer kegs, hence the name.

Design
"The Kegs are a pair of 50kg robots, each armed with 10kg spinning bars. The two auxiliary robots are wedge-shaped doorstops designed to sneak under opponents and disable them."

- Robot Wars: Build Your Own Robot

The Kegs was a two-part clusterbot, consisting of two middleweight robots. Both were made from half of a beer keg, making up the entire armour of each robot. Each half of The Kegs was armed with a horizontal bar spinner, designed to attack the underside of robots. Both Kegs were invertible, but the otherwise identical halves of The Kegs each use very different wheels to distinguish the robots from each other, and were powered by 29.6V lithium polymer batteries. The bar spinners were effective, however The Kegs lacked armour around the back of the robot, using 2.5mm curved steel for its armour, and both had a high ground clearance. "The Kegs is made mainly of recycled material, including a beer keg donated by the team’s local tavern, and electric bike motors for its drives."

- Robot Wars website

Series 10
The Kegs competed in Heat 4.

Results

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Trivia

 * The back of the team’s shirts read “two halves please”.