Chimera

Chimera is a heavyweight thwackbot, that competed in the 2016 series of Robot Wars, entered by a family team. Gabriel is armed with a variety of interchangeable blades and weapons, which it swings overhead by overturning the robot. These primary blade among the team’s selection is a three-headed spiked shaft. The robot cost less than £1,500 to build, borrowing tyres from an old Ford Fiesta. However, the team feel that their exposed tyres give them a weakness to spinners.

Chimera was originally built by Colin Scott of Team Death, but as of 2015, became owned by Team 51, nowadays known as Team Chimera, who rebuilt the robot in 2016 and entered it into Robot Wars.

The name Chimera is derived from the mythical creature of the same name that is said to have the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a serpent.

2016 series
Chimera will participate in Episode 2.

Results

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Robot Wars Live Events
Chimera competes at a variety of Robot Wars live events, albeit without major success. It made its 2016 debut at Manchester in a battle with Behemoth, Beast and Eruption, but quickly became immobilised. Mini-Mera debuted at the same event.

Outside Robot Wars
After ‘’Robot Wars’’ was taken off-air, Chimera was built by Colin Scott to compete in FRA competitions. The robot was retired in 2006, but was restored for an appearance at the 2011 UK Championships, where Chimera lost to Thor and Tiberius.

In March 2012, Chimera was sold to Team Scar, who at the time, owned Robot Wars veterans Scar and Eric, before finally being sold to Team 51 in 2015.

Team Chimera have built a featherwright version of Chimera, known as Mini-Mera. The various team members also own the featherweight robots Nautilus and Wolfs-Bane, and a beetlweight named Pisces.

A brand-new version of Chimera, Chimera 2, is currently under construction.

Trivia

 * By attacking purely with torque reaction, Chimera was in violation of the series’ original active weapon policy - it is likely that the rule was later changed to accomodate thwackbots or abandoned.