Charybdis

"The name 'Charybdis' is from greek mythology, some lady that got turned into a deadly whirlpool, or something. We quickly dropped it after realising that no-one could pronounce it."

- Team Website

Charybidis was a robot that failed to qualify for Series 4 of Robot Wars, entered by University College London. It was a two-wheeled, invertible, roughly-septagonal shaped machine. It had a similiar design to the team's next entry, but had a different weapon and chassis. It was named after a sea monster from Greek mythology.

It fought two qualifiers, beating Kater Killer, and also fighting Velocirippa. Despite not being chosen for The Fourth Wars, it was selected as a reserve, but unlike fellow reserve V-Max did not get a chance to compete.

It was armed with a spinning disc weapon, but this broke during it's second qualifier, and was replaced with a double headed spinning axe, like the one used on Fluffy, only smaller.

"The producer still thought we were worth a reserve place, so we threw this together in a few days."

- The Team Website on the spinning axe

After missing out on Series 4, the team stripped the chassis, and designed and built the much more succesful Fluffy.

Series Record

 * Series 1: Did not enter
 * Series 2: Did not enter
 * Series 2: Did not enter
 * Series 4: Failed to qualify
 * Series 5-7: Entered with Fluffy