Nuts

===Nuts 2===
{{quote|For Series 9, Nuts returned with an increased top speed of 20mph, allowing its weapon to flail twice as fast as previously. It has three cluster bots that distract opponents.|Robot Wars: Build Your Own Robot}}
[[File:Nuts 2 team.jpg|thumb|left|Nuts 2 with its team in Series 9]]
[[File:Nuts2 turntable.png|thumb|Turntable shot of Nuts 2 with white minibot in Series 9]]
Nuts 2 used a lighter and more compact design, now weighing 97kg (90kg in Series 9), and swapped the square ring for an octagonal ring. Its 3m flails had 2kg heads, and Nuts 2's upgrade to 20mph top speeds in Series 9 meant that the robot could now spin on the spot at well over 300rpm. The drive speed was further upgraded to 26mph in Series 10, enabling spins at 400rpm. Nuts 2's wheels were sleeker, and abandoned the self-righting aids on the side of the previous version. Its chassis was made from 3.2mm HARDOX, with 6mm HARDOX end caps, while the ring was made from 3mm mild steel. In Series 10, Nuts 2 had interchangeable outer rings, including the hexagonal ring from Series 9, a solid flail-less toothed ring and the original style square ring.
{{quote|This thing should pack a serious punch! Similar to being hit by a 180mph sledge hammer in fact...|Team Nuts Facebook page}}

[[File:Nuts2.jpg|thumb|left|Nuts 2 on the turntable in the filming of Series 9]]
[[File:Nuts 2 Turntable.jpg|thumb|Nuts 2 surrounded by its minibots in Series 9]]
The team had aspirations of using Meltybrain technology to enable Nuts 2 to controllably move around the arena while spinning, being the first robot on the show to use such a method. However, due to a lack of testing, the Meltybrain was not used in Series 9. 
{{quote|A "Meltybrain" controller works by measuring how fast the robot is spinning, and then stopping each motor for a section of the rotation. Repeating this over and over causes the robot to move forward whilst spinning. By having the drive system power the weapon as well, it reduced the cost and made the robot more reliable by having fewer moving parts. It's also a unique system that hasn't been seen on Robot Wars before, so we wanted to try it out.|Rory Mangles in [[Robot Wars: Build Your Own Robot]]}}

[[File:Nuts 2 minibots.jpg|thumb|left|Nuts 2's minibots in Series 9]]
Nuts 2 was accompanied by three new minibots in Series 9, which were lighter than that of the previous series at 3kg each. The minibots' wheels were no longer exposed, slotting into the 10mm HDPE base plates of each minibot, compared to the 8mm HDPE of their predecessors. Each were driven by Alex Shakespeare, Chris Shakespeare, and Gareth Barnaby, whilst Rory Mangles controlled Nuts 2.

{{quote|All fully CNCd, including custom battle hardened googly eyes!|Team Nuts Facebook page}}
[[File:Nuts 10.png|thumb|left|Nuts 2 in Series 10]]
[[File:Nuts 2 statsboard.png|thumb|Nuts 2 on the matchup boards of Series 10]]
When Nuts 2 returned in Series 10, the Meltybrain technology was implemented, allowing the robot to fight at its full potential, with the flails proving capable of punching through HARDOX armour. It possessed interchangeable rings, and its top speed was upgraded from 20mph to 26mph. The revised Nuts 2 could spin up to full speed much more quickly as a result of these changes, which also rectified the reliability issues that affected it in Series 9. However, Nuts 2 was hampered somewhat by poor traction on the arena floor, which reduced its Meltybrain movement to a very slow speed, and affected its spinning and driving as the wheels slipped frequently. As a partial response to this, Nuts 2's wheels were inverted after its Series 9 appearance, with the bike tread found on one side of each wheel now facing inwards, instead of facing outwards like in the previous series.

[[File:Nuts 2 Arena.jpg|thumb|left|Nuts 2 in the arena after its Heat Final]]
[[File:Nuts 2.png|thumb|Nuts 2 with minibots in Series 10]]
Nuts 2 was accompanied by another new selection of minibots in Series 10; all four were invertible, two-wheeled wedge-shaped robots with a top speed of 12mph and each had individual designs. With Team Nuts consisting of three members in this series, only two of the minibots could be used in the arena at any one time<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/robotwars/comments/7ci2yj/robot_wars_series_10_episode_4_postepisode/dpquw8s/</ref>, driven by Alex and Chris Shakespeare while Rory Mangles remained the driver of Nuts 2. The minibots consisted of the following machines, two of which were new for Series 10:

[[File:Nuts2 arena 10.png|thumb|Nuts with two minibots in the arena during Series 10]]
*Red and blue minibots with googly eyes and black front wedges, each originally used in Series 9.
*A second red minibot (driven by Chris Shakespeare) with green wheels and two extended forks at the front. The forks were spiked on top to hold robots in place, at the cost of nullifying its wedge when inverted.
*A white minibot (driven by Alex Shakespeare) with green wheels and powered by brushless motors, giving it six horsepower of drive. This robot featured a bulkier design with two red wedges at the front, as well as an opening in the main body of the wedge which housed an on-board camera.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqVl9F6SfqU</ref>