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BBC Two - Robot Wars, Series 8 - David vs Goliath(s): how Apollo flipped the House Robots By Dave Young, Captain and Driver, Team Apollo Right from the very start of the competition, we knew that going for an attack on the House Robots would be a possibility. We weren't going to throw away the competition for a chance, but they're such big targets to pass on. Before filming even began, the new house robots were advertised as bigger, heavier and nigh-on unbeatable. We were, basically, taunted — so we decided to take on the challenge. We had a bit of luck in flipping Dead Metal & Matilda. In our first fight with Storm 2, in the league stages, we had lost drive in one wheel, so the robot was driving around in a big circle most of the time. It just happened to be that Dead Metal was at the end of that circle. Bad planning on his behalf! We always knew we had the power to flip a house robot – Apollo's flipper has the ability of flipping a minimum of a tonne – but House Robots like Dead Metal are very wide, so we knew it wouldn't be easy to flip him over.
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