Comment Re:Who's copying who.... (Score 1) 129
There is a lot of "legal" history with RobotWars, but to sum it up a quickly as possible.
Robot Wars was concieved in the US by two partners if you will. When it was finally getting started... legal crap poof it was over. One partner (the one with the best lawyers) went overseas and licensed the name Robot Wars.
In the US a few other things tried to take off but where stopped by "the lawyers of RW".
Eventually came BattleBots which is run by actual robot builders. It is great and we (the robot builders) love it. We even can get roalties and profits are reinvested into the sport itself. Robot wars and the BBC put the money in their own pockets.
Most of the robots in the Robot Wars BBC series are rip-offs of successful US robots. There are NO clones of BBC robots in the US!
BattleBots will continue to improve. The battles shown on TV will (I predict) get a lot better in upcoming tapings because now US robot builders have a reason to invest in the future of our own robots. An example: in San Francisco there where maybe 60 robots. The next even in Las Vegas has over 120 entries. Eventually I will even can my old robot (been around for over 3 years even though no one has seen it) and build a new one. If Comedy Central shows the same number of episodes next time there will certainly be better bits and pieces to choose from.
And remember if you think you can do better then lets' see it! But if you think you are going to be serious about competing then I doubt you would even have the time to be reading slashdot.
Oh and SRL and Battlebots are two different things. SRL is about technology gone wrong. They also don't have rules and a time line to follow. Battlebots is about designing something to be better than your competition. I have helped SRL on different occasions, but I prefer to do my own thing.
Autonomous robots are really lame, and you complain about boring fights now..... they would rarley come in contact with each other. It would be very difficult to predict the path of an opponent that is also trying to predict your path and both meet in the middle with weapons flailing...... but imagine the commentary, "Oh look robot xyz has got a blue screen! I guess he wasn't running linux", or "Ouch, pinguins may become an endangered species after that killing spree."
Got to get back to the vectors..... my frame didn't hold up as well as I would have liked.
Robot Wars was concieved in the US by two partners if you will. When it was finally getting started... legal crap poof it was over. One partner (the one with the best lawyers) went overseas and licensed the name Robot Wars.
In the US a few other things tried to take off but where stopped by "the lawyers of RW".
Eventually came BattleBots which is run by actual robot builders. It is great and we (the robot builders) love it. We even can get roalties and profits are reinvested into the sport itself. Robot wars and the BBC put the money in their own pockets.
Most of the robots in the Robot Wars BBC series are rip-offs of successful US robots. There are NO clones of BBC robots in the US!
BattleBots will continue to improve. The battles shown on TV will (I predict) get a lot better in upcoming tapings because now US robot builders have a reason to invest in the future of our own robots. An example: in San Francisco there where maybe 60 robots. The next even in Las Vegas has over 120 entries. Eventually I will even can my old robot (been around for over 3 years even though no one has seen it) and build a new one. If Comedy Central shows the same number of episodes next time there will certainly be better bits and pieces to choose from.
And remember if you think you can do better then lets' see it! But if you think you are going to be serious about competing then I doubt you would even have the time to be reading slashdot.
Oh and SRL and Battlebots are two different things. SRL is about technology gone wrong. They also don't have rules and a time line to follow. Battlebots is about designing something to be better than your competition. I have helped SRL on different occasions, but I prefer to do my own thing.
Autonomous robots are really lame, and you complain about boring fights now..... they would rarley come in contact with each other. It would be very difficult to predict the path of an opponent that is also trying to predict your path and both meet in the middle with weapons flailing...... but imagine the commentary, "Oh look robot xyz has got a blue screen! I guess he wasn't running linux", or "Ouch, pinguins may become an endangered species after that killing spree."
Got to get back to the vectors..... my frame didn't hold up as well as I would have liked.
