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- "Team captain John is a man of strong moral fibre. Once the director of Greenpeace, he now recycles beer kegs into robots!"
- — Dara Ó Briain
The Kegs was a clusterbot which competed in Series 10 of Robot Wars, built by Team Terror Turtle. The robots were built from beer kegs, and the team lived next to a pub, hence the name.
Design
- "The Kegs are a pair of 50kg robots, each armed with 10kg spinning bars. The two auxiliary robots are wedge-shaped doorstops designed to sneak under opponents and disable them."
- — Robot Wars: Build Your Own Robot
The Kegs was a two-part clusterbot, consisting of two middleweight robots. The robots were individually called Keg 1 and Keg 2. Both were made from half of a beer keg, making up the entire armour of each robot. Each half of The Kegs was armed with a horizontal bar spinner, designed to attack the underside of robots. Both Kegs were invertible, but the otherwise identical halves of The Kegs each use very different wheels to distinguish the robots from each other, and were powered by 29.6V lithium polymer batteries. The Kegs lacked armour around the back of the robot, using 2.5mm curved steel for its armour, and both had a high ground clearance.
- "The Kegs is made mainly of recycled material, including a beer keg donated by the team’s local tavern, and electric bike motors for its drives."
- — Robot Wars website
As seen in The Kegs' VT, the robots were still functional beer kegs, and poured beer in a televised shot.
Robot History
Series 10
The Kegs competed in Heat 4. Before its first battle, Dara Ó Briain talked to Team Terror Turtle about their history with Greenpeace, and how The Kegs relates to this.
- Dara Ó Briain: "It's the peace bit, I wonder about this..."
- John Frizell: "Well, if everybody worked out their wars by fighting robots, we'd have a hell of a lot less people killed, and certainly no animals, and definitely no whales and seals are harmed in the fighting of robots!"
- Dara Ó Briain: "I'll give you that, we use very little blubber and ambergris in the creation of our robots!"
- — John Frizell on the 'wars' in Robot Wars
Results
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Series Record
Trivia
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