Evolution

Evolution was a robot designed to look like a tank. The robot's turret would spin around very fast at 360 degrees and act as the weapon. Its chassis was made of steel and aluminium but was armoured in medium density fibreboard - essentially wood - which was very fragile and easily damaged by the House Robots Sergeant Bash and Sir Killalot. It competed in Series 5 of Robot Wars and got to the second round of its heat, but was beaten by Spawn Again.

Evolution was actually only crewed by Alistair Hare, because his wife Katie was pregnant during filming.

During late 2002, Evolution was sold online to an unknown buyer.

Series 5
Sabre Tooth was Evolution's first opponent. It got its turret up to speed and struck Sabre Tooth. After some pushing from each robot Sabre Tooth appeared to break down. However the House Robots did not go in for the kill, instead they attacked Evolution. Sir Killalot cut off Evolution's turret, while Sergeant Bash cut through Evolution's side armour, but Evolution still went through on a judges' decision as they viewed the House Robot attacks as unfair.

In the next round it faced the seeded Spawn Again. Alistair Hare put a brick inside the turret in hopes it would make the weapon more powerful. However, it instead made the weapon too heavy, and caused Evolution to spin on the spot. Consequentially, Evolution was a sitting duck and the battle was over within twenty seconds as Spawn Again flipped Evolution and then threw it out of the arena. "We need to evolve"

- Alistair Hare, after the loss

Results

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Wins/Losses

 * Wins: 1
 * Losses: 1

Series Record

 * Series 1-4: Did not enter
 * Series 5: Heat, Round 2
 * Series 6-7: Did not enter

Trivia

 * The team name, Team Darwin, is a reference to the naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin, who introduced the scientific theory of Evolution (which the robot is named after), which he referred to as "natural selection".