- "...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 |
- NOTE 1: Tanto, a robot built by Team Danby, also competed in the untelevised Series 8 Pilot under new ownership of Team Immersion.
- NOTE 2: Craig Danby also competed in Battle of the Stars as mentor for The Cat.
Trivia[]
- Team Danby have built over 130 robots, but Vindicare was their first to be completed as a heavyweight.