Re:No body seems it get it. (Score 1)

You are so right. That's exactly the crowd that Battle Bots is aimed at. And you are also correct on the autonomous robot combat. I have seen a few and they are beacon beaters (i.e. they want to follow the IR beacon attached to the other robot), not what the other posters are talking about. It is very hard to have a robot do a simple task of catching a ball let alone catching and killing another robot. I am part of a group that builds autonomous maze robots (as well as combat 'bots, www parex.org and www.botbash.com) and I have seen some very talented programmers try very hard to solve a simple maze. I also know the man who had an autonomous robot in the old Robotwars event (1995? the 'bots name was Thumper) and even he says that AI just is not quite up to it yet. And getting 'caught' in a corner and having your 'bot soundly thrashed is kind of what happened to his 'bot.