RC Bandit

"...the arm is very strong, benefiting from both a box section construction and the excellent mechanical properties of steel. The arm is light enough to be firmly held in place by the chassis. It offers a wide choice of weapon tips, a great variety of attack angles, and enormous power."

— Southampton University Robot Wars website on the weapon

RC Bandit was a tracked robot constructed by students at Southampton University, which attempted to enter Series 3 of Robot Wars. It was not selected to compete in that series for currently unknown reasons. The robot had five sponsors.

The team had previously fought in the Super Heavyweight Championship with Bottweiler, which also failed to qualify for Series 3.

Design[]

RC Bandit had a steel chassis with a clear top panel and was armed with a hydraulic punching spike mounted on an arm that could change angle. The team chose hydraulics over pneumatics as they felt that they provided more power, despite being more costly and complex.

"Many ideas were considered for the construction of the arm. Originally conceived as a large multi-jointed structure mounted at the rear of the robot, with a preferred weapon, a jackhammer or rock-breaker being located at the tip. It was also envisaged that a crushing mechanism would be introduced into the arm's operation."

— The team's website on the weapon

Originally, the robot was going to have wheels, but the team decided to give the robot tracks.

"There were several reasons for this choice, such as; uniqueness, improved traction, zero turning circle, no more than two drive motors and appearance."

— The team's website on the advantages of tracks

Series Record[]

Series	RC Bandit Series Record
The First Wars	Did not enter
The Second Wars	Super Showdown with Bottweiler
The Third Wars	Not selected Not selected with Bottweiler
The Fourth Wars	Did not enter
The Fifth Wars	Did not enter
The Sixth Wars	Did not enter
The Seventh Wars	Did not enter
Series 8	Did not enter
Series 9	Did not enter
Series 10	Did not enter

External Links[]

The team's website (archived)

Navigation[]

v • d • e Applicants which never appeared in the TV series

Series 2	Apocalyptic Lawnmower • Automatic Jack • Blade Runner • Brian Damage • Dr. Who • Gnasher • Hairy • Harm • Hawkeye • JackBot • Medi-Junk • TimberWolf

Series 3	BattleSkar • Beelzebub • Bone • Carmarthenshire College Robot • Creature of the Wheel • Doomsday • Dr. Who • Eviscerator • Flippant Torque • Heck Raiser • Iron Man • Judge Mech • Knuckles • Locutus • Micah • More Panda Monium • Mr. Armageddon • Mumbo-Jumbo • NataPataBot • Papercut • Phase One • RC Bandit • The Rock • Rolling Thunder 2 • Samurai • Science Block • Scraposaurus • The Shaman‎‎ • S.H.A.R.O.N. • Silver Blade • Slugmiester • Stealth-Bot • The Strim Reaper • Taurus • The Enigma • Type 320 • Tyrant • UFO • Venom • VenoM • Xenomorph

Series 4	5 of 7 • Aeolus • Agvart • Banana-R Armour • The Bat • Big Jim • Big Pants • Blur • Bravehard • Cannibal • Charybdis • The Death Beetle • Deathwish • Death & Destruction Without An Interesting Name • Draco • Eco Warrior • F-One • Generation X • Gothix • Griffon • Hades • Hit Man • Iron Daisy • ISM • Jeff • Last Rights • Metal Fatigue • Mincer • The Mole • Monkey Nuts • The Necromancer • Nerves of Steel • New Era • Octospike • PC Plod • Phage • PLAGUE • Psycho • Riot • Rotraktor • Rough Diamond • Scrapman • Scythe • Share + Destroy • Sharky • Skabs • Slicer • Son of Robocow • Spike the Impaler • Tecumseh • Tiny • Tor • Twister • Typhoon • Undercut • Vindicare • War Weary • Wauxford Destroyer • Weird Alice

Series 5	Bangalore Bertie • Black Knight • Brute Force and Ignorance • CanOpener • Demolition Doris • Doorstop • Dorkus • DrillaKilla • Dynachrome • Fire and Ice • Force Majeure • Frightmare • Fury • Glint • Goldeneye • GyroChopper • Haardervark • Hamster • Hell-Raizer • Hornet • Incubus • KamikaZ • King Ludd • Kiss of Death • Loggerhead • On Guard • Pendragon • Prime Evil • Robofox • Roshambot • The Chuck Wagon • The Office Party • Tiger Shark • TX-108 • Viking • Warrior's Revenge • X box

Series 6	Biothan • Blade • Bigfish • Boudicca • Cruncher • Devil Rider • Geeza • G-Man • Hannibal • Judge Mental • Kruel Intent • Mutant MouseTrap • Present Danger • Rampage • RCX • Retribution • Scrap Dragon • Stegabot • Twinkle-Twinkle • Wipeout Cycler • Woden

Series 7	Artros • Bisyamonten • Caesar • Cayenne • German Hammer • Retirebot • Richard Huish College Robot • Skorpizoid • Tanto • Termigator • The British Bulldog • Thorak • ThundeRing • VIPER

Series 8	The Big Bamboo • Brutus • Bullfrog • Dystopia • Halo • Hard-Ox • Luzifer • Maelstrom • Manta • Polar Vortex • Rattler • Rybot • Terror-Bull • Titan • ThunderChild • Toxic 2

Series 9	Gladius • Iron Heart 88 • Loki • Mega Melvin • Mouse • Neutron • Phantom • Scorpinator • Tango • Vortex

Series 10	Audacious • Big Dave 3 • Dizzy Tilly • Double Jeopardy • Forseti • Magnitude • Mr Emoji • Photon • Tremor

Other	Army of Darkness • Aponem • Bei Tremender • Buzzter • CirKill • Close Shave • Force 10 • Geronimo • The IceMan • K.A.S.A.P. • Manic Miner • Mjollnir • Pegasus • Positron • Project Spuff • Reflex • RuffStuff • Savage Toaster • Snatcher • Torn-A-Disk • Tripulta • Vector (Reboot) • Vertex • Vortex (Austria)