Ellie's Little Pink-Bot

Ellie's Little Pink-Bot
Participation Information
UK Series	Extreme 2
Team Information
Team	Team Pink-Bot
Team Members	Hrolf Douglasson Doug Weight
From	Merseyside
Robot Statistics
Weight	14kg
Dimensions	0.15m x 0.55m x 0.39m
Power	24v Motor
Weapons	Face Spinner
Statistics correct as of its most recent show/competition appearance, or if not applicable, qualification attempt.

"Pink to make the House Robots wink, could be gone in a blink!"

— Jonathan Pearce introducing Ellie's Little Pink-Bot

Ellie's Little Pink-Bot was a lightweight robot which exclusively competed in the Lightweight Championship for the second series of Robot Wars Extreme. It never moved in its only battle against Typhoon Thunder, and lost, eventually being destroyed by Growler in the process.

Team Pink-Bot also attempted to qualify for Series 6 of Robot Wars with a round pink heavyweight robot armed with a lifting arm, thought to be named Pink-Bot's Revenge according to Kendrick Hrolfsson, son to Hrolf Douglasson. The heavyweight can be seen behind Team Pink-Bot's members during their pre-battle interview with Philippa Forrester.

Design

The team in The Pits

Ellie's Little Pink-Bot was an invertible, arrow-shaped lightweight painted pink and armed with a yellow face spinner as its weapon. It also had 2mm steel armour, but was untested in battle, and proved too heavy for its motors to drive it forwards or backwards. Because it was unable to move, it only entered the arena after being placed there by a crew member.

"One of the crew placed it in from memory. The team knew it was a piece of s*** and were laughing about how crap it was"

— Gary Cairns in 2019

Etymology

"My older sister is called Eleanor and she named it."

— Kendrick Hrolfsson in 2025

Ellie's Little Pink-Bot was named by Eleanor Hrolfsdottir, daughter to Hrolf Douglasson and a backstage team member who was not credited on-screen. This was confirmed by Kendrick Hrolfsson in the Unofficial Robot Wars Facebook group in August 2025.

Robot History

Extreme 2

"I'm looking forward to the pink robot causing as much damage as a baby robot can"

— Philippa Forrester pre-battle, and in for a disappointment

Ellie's Little Pink-Bot fails to launch an attack

Ellie's Little Pink-Bot is counted out

Ellie's Little Pink-Bot failed to move for the entire battle. Typhoon Thunder landed a few hits, before Refbot pushed the pink robot, causing the face spinner to fall off. Growler burnt it with his flamethrower, then it was counted out, allowing Shunt to position it on the Floor Flipper, which almost launched it out of the arena.

Growler destroys the Pit release button while crushing Ellie's Little Pink Bot

A tattered Ellie's Little Pink-Bot is pitted by Shunt

The mangled remains of Ellie's Little Pink Bot

Growler came in and the House Robot used its jaws to clamp onto Ellie's Little Pink-Bot and the Pit release tyre and burn the remains of the beaten machine on the Flame Pit. Ellie's Little Pink-Bot was flung from the Floor Flipper again, before Growler slammed into it, breaking up the machine, and Shunt pushed it into the Pit.

"We didn't get going because the motors will drive it providing the drive wheels are off the ground, as soon as we put it on the ground, it weighs too much for it and it wouldn't move!"

— Hrolf Douglasson explains the design flaw

Despite the extensive damage, Hrolf Douglasson and Doug Weight were amused by the manner of their defeat, though the same could not be said of the robot's eponym, Eleanor Hrolfsdottir.

"My older sister was backstage as part of the ellies little pink bit [sic] team. She remembers accidently bumping into Ian Lewis with a bowl full of soup. Following the destruction via growler, she wasn't too thrilled but both dad and grandad couldn't stop p***ing themselves laughing."

— Kendrick Hrolfsson in 2025

Results

Wins/Losses

• Wins: 0
• Losses: 1

Series Record

The unknown heavyweight with Hrolf Douglasson

Main Series	Ellie's Little Pink-Bot Series Record
The First Wars	Did not enter
The Second Wars	Did not enter
The Third Wars	Did not enter
The Fourth Wars	Did not enter
The Fifth Wars	Did not enter
The Sixth Wars	Failed to qualify with unknown heavyweight
The Seventh Wars	Did not enter
Series 8	Did not enter
Series 9	Did not enter
Series 10	Did not enter
Robot Wars Extreme	Appearances
Series 1	Did not enter
Series 2	Lightweight Runner-Up

Outside Robot Wars

According to Kendrick Hrolfsson when asked in August 2025, "still a few bits" of Ellie's Little Pink-Bot remain in the family's possession.