Rampage was a robot that competed in the Featherweight category at the 1996 US Robot Wars championship. Rampage fought in the Featherweight melee where it was knocked out by Spiny Norman during the 1996 Championship which was featured in the American Robot Wars 1996 VHS.
Design
The insides of Rampage
Rampage was built using a old RC car and batteries from a power drill. The robot controlled with car style steering at the front, given its RC origins. The motors were powered by a 7.2 volts battery pack and used older mechanical speed controllers. Rampage was armed with two spring loaded arms with cutting discs at the end of them. The robot was armoured in aluminium.
Robot History
1996 Championship
Spiny Norman fought in the Featherweight melee against Red 2, Triple Redundancy, Arsenic, The X-2, Spiny Norman and Snickers.
- "It doesn't take long for Triple Redundancy to tape things up. It splits three ways and causes chaos."
- — Paul Vallis on the beginning of the fight
Spiny Norman about to ram Rampage (centre)
The battle began with the clusterbot Triple Redundancy splitting apart with tape attached to all three robots. Rampage darted towards the middle of the arena, however, Spiny Norman slammed it against a mouse trap where it lost mobility. Rampage lingered out of sight for the remainder of the match as the battle is won by The X-2.
Outside Robot Wars
Unseen in the official release was Rampage's championship run where it faced Bite Me! and lost its only battle.
The InfernoLabs have created and competed with many robots in multiple competitions, with a total of twelve different robots having been created.
- Bot Will Eat Itself - A Featherweight for the 1997 Robot Wars, a repainted Rampage.
- Hot Air - Clusterbot that fought in BattleBots, Long Beach 1999
- The Missing Link - Lightweight that fought in Long Beach 1999 and Season 1.0 of BattleBots.
- Tesseract - A robot made of LEGO that fought in BotBash.
- Slugger - A Heavyweight that was lent to Team Coolrobots and fought in both 1999 events BattleBots.
- Mini Inferno - A robot that fought in Robotica.
- Dr. Inferno Jr. - A lightweight BattleBots competitor that fought in all five of the Comedy Central era season, winning both Season 3.0 and Season 5.0.
- Towering Inferno - A Heavyweight that fought in the final three Seasons of the Comedy Central era of BattleBots.
- Hell on Wheels - A lightweight that fought in the Steel Conflict.
- The Disk-O-Inferno - A heavyweight that first fought in RoboGames but appeared in the second season of the reboot of BattleBots.
Jason Bardis currently acts as judge for BattleBots, first appearing in Discovery Season 4.
Trivia
- Rampage is the only robot not named by Paul Vallis during the Rumble.
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