Ironside3

Ironside 3 is a heavyweight robot, armed with a 35kg spinning bar, similar in shape to 6 Million Dollar Mouse, which competed in the 2016 series of Robot Wars, the series for which the robot was built. Besides its spinning bar, Ironside 3 is also armed with a srimech bar, lifting the robot sideways, similar to the srimech of Hypno-Disc and 13 Black, although with a more triangular shape. The robot is made from 5mm steel, and its spinning bar rotates at 1500RPM.

Although Ironside 3 is the third member of the Ironside series of robots, it is in fact the first heavyweight. The original Ironside was an octagonal featherweight rambot, while Ironside 2, also a featherweight, was originally armed with a spinning disc, allowing the robot to be invertible, before the weaponry was adapted to become a spinning bar, like the weapon of Ironside 3. The robot was built within a month.

Ironside 3 was entered into Robot Wars by Team Outlaw, previously Team Mouse, veterans of the show, who had previously competed with Velocirippa, and former heat finalist, Mighty Mouse.

2016 series
Ironside 3 appeared in Episode 5 where it faced Chompalot, Pulsar and Thermidor 2 in its first round melee.

Results

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Series Record

 * Series 1-2: Did not enter
 * Series 3: Robotic Soccer with Velocirippa
 * Series 4-5: Entered with Velocirippa
 * Series 6: Entered with Mighty Mouse, withdrew Velocirippa
 * Series 7: Entered with Mighty Mouse and Velocirippa
 * 2016 Series: Round 2, Third Place

Outside Robot Wars
Although Ironside 3 has yet to appear outside of Robot Wars, the featherweight Ironside fought exclusively at live events. Ironside 2, having competed in featherweight events across the country, competed in the UK Featherweight Championship, where its spinning disc was swapped for a spinning bar. Team Mouse most commonly participate in live heavyweight combat with Meggamouse.

Trivia

 * Ironside 3’s driver, Adam, met team captain, Trevor, after he watched Mighty Mouse's performance in Series 7, and was inspired to try building a robot himself – it was only then that they found out they were next door neighbours.