Hardcore Robotics

BattleBots Faceoffs - Tombstone vs Orbitron Tombstone's final match from our BattleBots Faceoffs weekend. After our close match against Valkyrie, can we rally for the last match and get a win? How well...

It’s finally here… the premiere of BattleBots FaceOffs – Episode 1 (part 1)!
And we’re kicking things off with a Round Robin mini-tournament featuring FOUR iconic teams:

💥 HyperShock
💀 Hardcore Robotics
⚙️ Valkyrie - BattleBot
🚀 Orbitron (The Hacksmith)

Every robot fights every other robot once—that’s 6 fights total across the two part episode!
Whoever comes out with the best record wins a brand-new piece of BattleBots hardware:
🏆 The Giant Washer

You’ll see the hits, the chaos… and we’ll take you behind the scenes with the builders as they tell their stories, reveal their strategies, and fight to earn their place in BattleBots history.

Episode 1 drops Thursday, March 27, with Part 2 coming Thursday, April 3—both co-released with our friends at Hacksmith.

This is BattleBots like you’ve never seen it before—raw, real, and made with love by the builders and our team.

📺 Watch it exclusively on YouTube. Free to stream. No paywalls. Just robot carnage.

Tombstone BattleBots Armor Panel - Signed! | eBay This is the titanium front armor panel from the BattleBot Tombstone, used in the 2024 BattleBots Faceoffs series in our highly anticipated rematch against Hypershock! This piece is signed by the builders and drivers from the Hypershock team (Alex Bales and Will Bales) and the Tombstone team (Ray Bil...

BattleBots Faceoffs Tombstone v Hypershock Recently BattleBots posted a fight from our most recent event, the BattleBots Faceoffs Series. The match they chose was Tombstone vs Hypershock, a very highl...

Check it out in a few days!

🚨THE VIDEO IS LIVE HERE 🚨
https://youtu.be/WZZHGeCkxzk

BotFans - We’ve got something BIG coming your way.

On Tuesday, March 11, we’re dropping an exclusive 8-minute sneak peek of an all-new BattleBots series on our YouTube channel. And at the heart of this preview? An epic rematch between HyperShock and Hardcore Robotics !

The new series is called BattleBots FaceOffs, and it’s something special—produced by us, streaming worldwide, and completely FREE to watch. No subscriptions, no paywalls—just pure BattleBots action, straight to you.

We’re incredibly excited about this new chapter for BattleBots, and we’d love for you to be part of it. The more fans that watch and support us on YouTube, the more we can shape the future of BattleBots on our own terms.

So, mark your calendars—March 11. The sneak peek drops that day, but you can head over to our YouTube channel now and subscribe to be reminded (it’s FREE).

Thank you for being the best fans in the world—we can’t wait for you to see what’s next!

Tombstone, all ready for BattleBots Faceoffs!

Or is it? Functionally everything works great and I was feeling pretty confident, until we tossed it on a scale today 🤣 Just a tad overweight, so somewhere in my calculations I messed up. But no big deal, I've got ~40 hours to get everything completed and loaded up in the van. Plenty of time 😝

Robots are fun, right?

I am, once again, easily entertained :)

Brimstone celebrates Halloween! Trick or treat? I'm gonna go with trick! Having a little holiday fun with Brimstone. Nothing quite says Happy Halloween quite like a flame thrower!If you've ...

Some of the parts off of Stink Eye, fresh off its appearance on the Dude Perfect and Mark Rober video shoot, are now up on eBay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/146076960072 - Motor Mount
https://www.ebay.com/itm/146076965713 - Tire 1
https://www.ebay.com/itm/146076967914 - Tire 2
https://www.ebay.com/itm/146076973694 - Top Armor Panel

No idea if this amounts to things people want to collect or not, but I guess we'll see! What's the old cliche' - bid early and bid often! 🤣

Dude Perfect/Mark Rober BattleBot | eBay This is the top armor cover from the combat robot "Stink Eye", as shown on YouTube for the 'Dude Perfect vs Mark Rober: Battle Bots' video shoot. If you go to the following YouTube channels you can see the videos on how the robot was built and used in this challenge!

BattleBots Faceoffs starts tomorrow, with fights over the weekend Sept. 20-22. And even though we're not fighting yet, I will be there to hang out with some of my favorite teams and check out the action! Tombstone - BattleBots will be fighting later in the year, over the weekend of November 1-3. If you're around either weekend, stop by and say hi!

Tickets for all the shows are available on the BattleBots website:

https://battlebots.com/faceoffs

https://youtu.be/1RdDe0QsX0c?list=TLGGoi6qpx0jRr4xOTA5MjAyNA

BattleBots FaceOffs: World Championship VIII Pre-Qualifiers LIVE in Las Vegas select dates Sept-Dec. Get ready for an unforgettable showdown in Las Vegas this September – December! BattleBots Destruct-A-Thon is bringing you a series of World Championship VII...

We got another mention on IEEE with our video on the motor modifications for Tombstone. Kind of cool! A few other cool things to check out too. We're about half way down on the page:

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I've got a slight bit of machining ahead of me 🤣 I am hopeful I can get this completed in time for BattleBots Faceoffs in a couple of months. Let me get a little further along and I'll go into detail on the unusual steel alloy involved.