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"...the concept was to slide under and topple people, what good are wheels when they don't touch the floor?"
— Team Danby website[1]

Vindicare was a robot built by Team Terrafonics, later known as Team Danby, to enter Series 4 of Robot Wars. Ultimately it did not qualify for the series after suffering technical issues during the qualifiers and was scrapped shortly after.[2]

Design[]

"our first true heavyweight, invertable {sic} and driven by 2x wheel chair motors, it had a pneumatic lifting fork set up..."
— Team Danby website[1]

Vindicare was an invertible, two-wheel drive robot powered by two 24V wheelchair motors running on 36 volts, with a resulting top speed of 10mph.[2] Its weaponry consisted of a pair of pneumatic lifting forks intended to hoist and topple opponents over, similarly to those of established US Robot Wars and BattleBots competitor Vlad the Impaler.[1][2] This was powered by a system inspired by that employed by then-recently crowned UK Champion Chaos 2, itself requiring 2kg for the onboard CO2 supply.[2] Lifting capacity for the forks was stated to be one tonne, with Vindicare reusing a pneumatic actuator from Team Terrafonics' preceding super heavweight Toxin.[2] The robot's chassis adopted angled sides giving it an elongated hexagonal prism shape when viewed from the front.

Series Record[]

Main Series Vindicare Series Record
The First Wars Did not enter
The Second Wars Featherweight Championship with Deadline
The Third Wars Super Heavyweight Championship with Toxin (event cancelled)
The Fourth Wars Failed to qualify
The Fifth Wars Failed to qualify with TX-108
The Sixth Wars Failed to qualify with TX-108
The Seventh Wars Featherweight Championship with Gi-Ant-O
Unused reserve, Tanto
Failed to qualify with TX-108
Series 8 Entered with Foxic
Not selected with Apex
Series 9 Entered with Foxic (Team Danby)
Entered with Apex (Team Terrafonics)
Series 10 Entered with Apex
Not selected with Foxic
Robot Wars Extreme Appearances
Series 1 Entered with TX-108 (unaired)
Entered with Anto
Series 2 Entered with Gi-Ant-O

Trivia[]

  • Team Danby have built over 130 robots, but Vindicare was their first to be completed as a heavyweight.

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