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Stinger was a robot with a large spiked mace on the end of an arm. The arm was designed to swing around whenever the driver reversed the motors. Stinger had virtually no body; all the electronics were within its two large wheels - Stinger's motors, power electronics and batteries. This design was called torque reaction, which was a form of Thwackbot. Alongside Weeliwako, Stinger was the first ever torque reaction axlebot on Robot Wars. Stinger entered in Series 3 through 6. In Series 3, a grinding wheel (often nicknamed a "pizza cutter") was used instead of the mace.

Stinger had a very high and low performance ratio. Its debut into Series 3 saw it display almost no control before falling into the pit, and its Extreme history was also quite bad - of the seven battles it fought in across both series of Extreme, it won two, one by default and the other victory saw it thrown from the arena by Sir Killalot anyway. It also performed quite poorly in the side competitions of Series 4, and in its sole appearance in Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors.

Contrarily, it performed very strongly in Series 4, knocking out the favoured Bulldog Breed 2 and Panic Attack - in addition to giving reigning and future champions Chaos 2 a very close call - to place third overall. It also made two heat finals in Series 5 and 6, knocking out powerful robots in the Heat Semi-Final on both occasions.

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