In this form, it adopted a steep wedge-shaped profile and a vertical flywheel with several sharp teeth.
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Carbide also finished runner-up in Series 8 and 10 of Robot Wars and won Series 9.Ĭobalt did not return for Discovery Season 3 due to filming clashes with Chinese robot combat show This is Fighting Robots, which Team Carbide had much more success with, becoming champion of the show, despite losing its debut fight.įor the 2019 season, Cobalt was near unrecognizable from its previous iteration, now sporting a black and green color scheme like that of their Robot Wars Series 9 winning entry Carbide, and a four-wheel drive design similar to their This is Fighting Robots entry Tungsten. Carbide uses a black and green color scheme, over the white and blue used by Cobalt. Both Cobalt and Carbide are extremely similar in shape and design, but Carbide used a simple spinning bar and both robots feature different internals. Team member Sam Smith also was the original builder of Tiberius, which competed in BattleBots as Photon Storm.Īround the same time that Team Carbide developed Cobalt for BattleBots, the same team were also producing a heavyweight for the 2016 Robot Wars reboot, Carbide. The robot was built by Dave Moulds who was a team member for beta in Season 1 of ABC's BattleBots. It performed decently as it reached the round of 32 in its debut season. It was armed with a unique looking and single bladed spinning blade.
Cobalt is a robot built by Team Carbide from the United Kingdom which competed in the second and fourth seasons of the BattleBots reboot.