Triterobot

Not to be confused with the US competitor Tricerabot.

Triterobot
Triterobot
Participation Information
UK Series	3
Team Information
Team	Team Mousetrap
Team Members	Stan Launchbury Jason Launchbury
Robot Statistics
Weight	75.2kg
Dimensions	0.42m x 1.08m x 1.20m
Clearance	5cm
Power	2 x 600W starter motors
Weapons	Ramming spikes
Statistics correct as of its most recent show/competition appearance, or if not applicable, qualification attempt.

Triterobot was Team Mousetrap's entry into Series 3. Like Steg-O-Saw-Us, Triterobot was a reserve (although it is not clear who it replaced) and did not receive a televised introduction. It lost its only battle against Evil Weevil.

"We were eventually called up by the BBC as studio reserves for the competition. This meant heading down to London on the off chance of being selected. [...] To cut a very long story short, we were invited back as main competitors in the second half of the draw"

— Jason Launchbury, writing after the event

It's name is believed to be a pun on Triceratops, a type of herbivorous dinosaur.

Design

Triterobot was a green triangular omni-directional robot, with several smiling faces decorating the corner. It also had a spike on each corner, was invertible and was described as having no front, back or sideways, due to separately rotating wheels that shared a common power source from two motorbike starter motors.

Robot History

Series 3

Triterobot starts to smoke

In Round 1 of the Third Wars, Triterobot went up against future Semi-Finalists Evil Weevil. As soon as Activate was called, Triterobot moved quickly towards Evil Weevil and collided with it. After driving into Sergeant Bash's CPZ, Evil Weevil drove onto the Arena Wall and was spiked by Triterabot. Evil Weevil then pushed Triterobot towards Sergeant Bash, who became impaled onto the House Robot by one of its spikes. Then Evil Weevil pushed Triterobot around the Arena floor until reaching Sir Killalot's CPZ. There, Evil Weevil released Triterobot who promptly impaled one of its spikes into Evil Weevil's fibreglass armour and began to smoke copiously. The battle was briefly paused due to the perceived fire hazard, but allowed to continue as the house robots separated the two machines, but Triterobot had lost a lot of its power during the "smokescreen". Evil Weevil then attacked Triterobot and turned it on its side, where neither sets of Triterobot's castors touched the ground. Thus, it was stuck on its side and Evil Weevil pushed the immobile robot towards the pit. Missing the final push by instead driving in a curving arc, the House Robots closed in on Triterobot, however Evil Weevil attacked Shunt to help Triterobot, who were enjoying the punishment being inflicted upon their robot.

Results

Wins/Losses

• Wins: 0
• Losses: 1

Trivia

• Triterobot was mistakenly spelled Tri-Terra-Bot in both Robot Wars: The Official Robot Guide and Robot Wars: The Ultimate Guide.
  • The Ultimate Guide makes a further mistake by stating that it was succeeded by S3. S3 actually succeeded Sting, whilst Mousetrap succeeded Triterobot. Ironically, S3 and Mousetrap 2 would fight in Series 5.

Series Record

• Series 1-2: Did not enter
• Series 3: Heat, Round 1
• Series 4-5: Entered with Mousetrap
• Series 6: Failed to qualify with Mutant Mousetrap
• Series 7: Entered with Black and Blue
• 2016-17 Series: Did not enter

Links

• http://web.archive.org/web/20010408193810/http://www.jasonlaunchbury.com/teammousetrap/triterobot/triterobot.html - Official website (Internet Archive link)