Kan-Opener

"More bite than a Great White! Or so they say"

- Jonathan Pearce

Kan Opener (sometimes written as Kan-Opener) was a competitor robot that competed in Series 5 to 7 of Robot Wars. It was a yellow octagonal robot with two large horizontal crushing claws. In Series 5, it was fitted with an unreliable self-righting mechanism, but from Series 6 onwards it was much flatter and invertible. A battering ram was also added to the back of the machine in Series 6. Although Kan Opener never progressed beyond the first round in any of its three main competition appearances, it did win two separate annihilators, the only robot ever to do so.

Series 5
Atomic was very quick to flip over Kan-Opener, which had a self righting arm fitted with a small glove. This failed to work, but Atomic flipped it back onto its wheels. Kan-Opener was tossed onto its back before it could use its weaponary, and pitted at the end of the battle having clearly lost.

Series 6
Kan Opener began stronger than Series 5, hooking its claw around Demolition Man and grappling with the meter high robot, whilst beaching Double Trouble on top of it. However, Fluffy rushed into the fray, slamming and gouging several blows in Kan Opener's side. "...and that has opened up a can of worms for those boys..."

- Jonathan Pearce

Kan Opener lost all mobility, remaining pinned to Demolition Man, but Double Trouble released itself, slamming clean into Kan Opener's side. Kan Opener was seperated from Demolition Man and counted out, before Double Trouble slammed it into another wall and Sir Killalot put it on the floor flipper. However, Kan Opener had already done enough damage to Demolition Man to drag it out alongside it.

Extreme 2
Kan-Opener fought in the Annihilator contest of Robot Wars Extreme 2 with Major Tom, Thermidor 2, Typhoon 2, Raging Reality & Revenge of Trouble and Strife. It got flipped around by Raging Reality and Thermidor 2 in the first round and didn't do much. Then it was targetted by Typhoon 2 who attacked head-on and fortunatly snagged its own disc on the tip of one of Kan-Openers claws which stopped it spinning. Kan-Opener qualified the first round after Raging Reality flipped and immobilised Typhoon 2. Kan-Opener didn't do much but survived as Raging Reality broke down after Kan-Opener sank its claws into it. The Next round it was through as well after Revenge of Trouble and Strife had been flipped and immobilised by Thermidor 2 before Kan-Opener pushed them down the pit. The next round, Kan-Opener's claws had been greased up, it was one of the more aggressive along with Thermidor 2 and Major Tom dropped out after breaking down and getting severely damaged by the house robots leaving Kan-Opener and Thermidor 2 to go through to the annihilator final. It started off with Thermidor 2 trying to flip Kan-Opener but couldn't due to its width. Kan-Opener then had Thermidor 2 in its claws trying to get it in the pit with it holding on well, then Kan-Opener grappled with Thermidor 2's wheel but Thermidor 2 got away. The 2 robots then found themselves in the CPZ getting attacked by Sgt Bash and Shunt but they escaped. After Thermidor 2 tried flipping them over in a few failed attempts and Kan-Opener buried its claws into the lobster-like machine, Thermidor 2 was begining to look very tired with holes and scratches spreading all over its armour. As the last 10 seconds of the fight started counting down, Kan-Opener slowly pushed Thermidor 2 towards the pit and with only 4 seconds to go, Kan-Opener managed to get them down claiming the title and becoming Annihilator champion.

Series 7
Kan Opener started its opening round melee by getting its pincers to crush onto Barbaric Response's wheel guards, breaking them and crushing into the wheels. Whilst causing a large amount of damage, it couldn't pry the pincers out of Barbaric Response for the remaining duration of the battle. It edged Barbaric Response towards the pit but couldn't nudge Barbaric Response in, with the remaining time. It is disputed whether Kan-Opener had broken down by this point or whether it was simply unable to push Barbaric Response, it wasn't officially counted out and was included in the judges decision, which went against it. Kan Opener was out in the first round once more.

Results

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Wins/Losses

 * Wins: 10
 * Losses: 3

Series Record

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