Robot Wars 1995 - Blendo vs DoMore

[johanthebig]

blendo kicked domore s ass

[MrBloodyBat]

They should've given him a sawblade :O that would be so destructive, a spinning turtle shield with a friggin sawblade! AWESOME!

[southpark3003]

blendo sucked in battlebots

[snagglepaste]

rollin down the street on my blendo

sippin on gin and juice

[flipperkid123]

thats jamie hynemans robot

[BrandonMYates]

Wadsworth constant applies



[As7raios]

You know, Robots are going to look back on this one day in disgust.

[pd010230]

DUBSTEP



[firecamp2]

omg someone please get blendo built for the robot arena 2 game thanks!

[DTITATE]

I compete in an event like this in Science Olympiad the spinning way is the

best way to go!

[hazza3]

1:38 Let it Rip.

[theheadshot45]

@hazza3 -THAT'S beyblades.

[9darkdays]

I like how it not only looks intimidating, but sounds intimidating aswell.

[robotpanda77]

Reminds me of the mech battle arena in saga frontier.

[WoobooRidesAgain]

DoMore's weapon looks like it would actually be more effective if it just had a bit more punch to it. At least when it comes to the standard sort of "block with a ramp/saw/flipper" design you see a lot these days. But against a bot like Blendo, it had no real chance. Also, that piston-spear needed to have a firmer base. A bot like Blendo would just tear that right off.

[SuperKingofvids]

@WoobooRidesAgain But they had a good idea with the metal hoop around the chassis. It was too tall enough for blendo to cut into, but short enough to keep blendo away.

[coffee484]

lol you can hear adam

[Unitronus]

Aww man this is the best footage! But I still don't see why Blendo was disqualified later on.

[LehmannDaHero]

wtf the other robot had no protection for its inside mechanisms plus ITS HELD TOGETHER WITH ZIP TIES?!

[duifuinator]

awesome mop dude...

[MTMiPower]

i love this show when i was a kid, how come i never see it anymore on the tv these days?

[FunnyBus3rd]

@MTMiPower cause now robot's are not "in"

[smudgethekat]

I would wire mine up so that it had a car battery in contact with a metal case separate from the rest. That way if any other robot touched mine, I would sned a powerful electric shock through the case and into the other robot, frying the electronics. Perhaps I would incorporate a dart or harpoon type thing that I would fire into enemy robots and deliver the shock through that...

[sparkey989]

@smudgethekat You're a fucking moron. That is entirely against the rules, dumbass

[smudgethekat]

@sparkey989 Meh.

[Bakumaster9]

@SrJimmyZOSO makes sense

[Bakumaster9]

how does blendo win its just spinning

[sparkey989]

@Bakumaster9 it shreds the opponent slow brain

[ArialKiller12]

@Bakumaster9 there's some sort of blade thing on it's side, it's just no visible when it's spinning. check for photos

[mdk124]

haha... When in doubt, C4 :)

[anzin74]

I can imagine Jamie at the controls going "Quack, damn you!"

[Chrinik]

Well, a Combat Robot build by Jamie Heyneman and Adam Savage NEEDs to be deadly...they probably would have used a failsafe, when they would face defeat, 400grams of C-4 would detonate and kill the other robot too.

[izdatsumcp]

This is the fantastic Blendo I've been hearing so much about? Fuck off!

[MODernChris]

@izdatsumcp

Keep in mind that this was 15 years ago. This was quite the bot in those days. And there is no way you can't respect such a simple, but effective (back then) design.

[sparkey989]

@izdatsumcp And you are fucking retarded. THis thing launched pieces into the air

[ArialKiller12]

@izdatsumcp if it sucks so much, then i dare you to put your hand on it while it's turned on

[Pikazilla]

oh, you can spin? I can spin too!

:|

[blehblehbleh86]

God that's boring.

[Brute4rce]

why didn't blendo mount the teeth higher on the robot so it could actually hit something?

[LadyLatias]

At 2:37, one of the other bots was just kinda like 'rawr! *POUNCE*' on Blendo.

[8narutoshodowclones]

blendo was so awesome and destructive it was banned 3 times!

[jjperceval]

@8narutoshodowclones twice actually i competed 3 times

[M3iscool]

They actually got removed from the competition because it was SO powerful that it flung stuff over the walls, even a whole robot one time. I mean it was powered by a lawn mower engine.

[1zacster]

Lol saftey concerns? The whole video the only sound is a loud WHIRRRRRR of blendo spinning

[noobaricia]

Im sorry but i like megabyte better

[noobaricia]

Blendo cant hit like other spinners because of its low blade point

[wrlitzr]

what a waste of 3:44 min.

[LeafMonkey59]

which one was Blendo? I keep hearing it's the spinning one but they both spin.

[rand0mlyrand0m]

what do u think dumbass

[Jowind]

1:43

IMPOSTER

[IdarkphoenixI]

Looks like the only way to beat blendo is to flip it over. Anything else would just bounce off. Mythbusters ftw!

[sapier]

@IdarkphoenixI

i remember there being robots with shovels or wedge designs that were specifically made to flip and/or catapult their opponents.

[Fireball2999]

@IdarkphoenixI ziggos the same way

[cjmooney9]

agreed. at that time, how could you attack blendo?

Your attacks on him was his offense. He just sat there spinning.

Brilliant design

[soccom8341576]

cool, but not invinsible.

Surprised no one came up with this earlier.

[tobby881]

I just read about this on wikipedia.. I imagined some sort of megazord or something since wikipedia stated that it would throw it's opponents into the crowd. I'm really impressed seeing such a simple but very effective design.

[PeraDjordjevic]

I'm sorry if someone finds this offensive, but i think Blendo is like AIDS: Very simple, yet very powerful. AIDS is one of the simplest viruses out there and scientists still can't find a cure. Blendo is a metal shell with a spike spinning at around 70 miles per hour and it pwns. I admit that this is quite an unusual comparison... Blendo actually got banned a few times for being too dangerous for the audience, so they gave Jamie ( the creator ) a reward those few times even though he didn't win.

[powerage112]

yes. A simple virus. A simple highly complicated, constantly mutating lifeform.

[ThundergodxRaiden]

Simple, yet highly complicated? Do you like contradicting yourself?

Also, virii are NOT living things, just "rogue" genetic material that has limited reproductive capabilities. They are usually referred to as "biological entities" because of this.

The main barrier that keeps them from being considered living things is the fact that they cannot reproduce on their own; they need to "hijack" the protein/RNA synthesizing equipment of eukaryotic cells.

/biology lesson

[powerage112]

Was this a reply to me? My sarcasm was pretty obvious. Way to use your brain, though.

[AmericaFyeah1776]

A virus is a form of life.

[ThundergodxRaiden]

No it isn't.

It does not meet several of the requirements for being true life. There are infectous agents simpler than virii, viroids and prions, and they are somewhat similar in what they do but they are still not considered life.

[nooloo3000]

what are you talking about

[Chritcha]

@PeraDjordjevic AIDS is not a virus...

[PeraDjordjevic]

@Chritcha HIV? :S

[Chritcha]

@PeraDjordjevic exactly

[cjmooney9]

@PeraDjordjevic

Aids is one of the more complicated things in existence, in regards to human beings.

It's powerful, as it's too clever and complexed to treat.

I get your point though! Just the wrong disease.

[computercod5]

come on if you put Blendo up against hypnodisc or typhoon 2 they would smash it.

[Bobisawesome100]

no one wants to fuck with Blendo. The brain child of Jamie Hyneman

[Syeno]

@Bobisawesome100 and adam savage :D

[Kieran84ire]

1:19 is oddly sexual.

[MrSniper16]

lol

FLAWLESS VICTORY

[sparkey989]

to the three tards below me, LETS SEE YOU BUILD A BOT DUMBASS!!!!!

[poplolcool]

this is the most lamest robo fight ever seen !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TehRattlesnake]

DoMore is a gigantic pansy

[deminisher98]

How many RPM?

[badooga]

According to Jamie, 400rpm.

Check out "Commonwealth club mythbusters" to see an hour-long discussion of the Mythbusters guys.

[deminisher98]

hmm...the robot my classmates and I are building is 10,00 rpm...or at least the design is...I'll see what I can ask my teacher about it, like to go down to 5,000 or 1,000 but that is the total speed on hyperdrive. see the bot has a spinner weapon that spins at 100 rpm and when I press a certain button, the entire robot would spin, while the weapon is spinning, at 100 rpm and I know that 100x100=10,000. We are only thinking of obliterating all the other bots. We not making mistakes like them.

[ResettisReplicas]

I'm not sure that it would work that way. If you want the robot to go forward while spining, you're going to separate the rest of the robot from the spinner shell's axle. In other words, your robot could only achieve the desired PRM while standing in place. That might have worked in 1995, but today's robots are too fast. Not to mention that 100 RPM is useless; if your robot is spinning at 25% of what was considedred good 14 years ago, it won't do jack.

[deminisher98]

Yeah I figured it out... Now im just thinking of a spinner bot(one that has only a spinning weapon) that has a spinning blade going at 1000 rpm. What do you think?

[ResettisReplicas]

It depends on what kind of disc you're using. If it's a big, bulky disc like 13 Black or Hypnodisc, then 1000 should suffice. If it's a flat, lightweight disc, you're ideally going to want something like 3,000 to really cause damage. It helps if you have a pair of teeth on the outer edge to consolidate all the energy into one point when it makes contact, thus increasing the destructive potential. Have you give any thought to the design of your teeth?

[deminisher98]

yeah, Ill go with your suggestion of 3,000 rpm or maybe Ill make it 5,000 for total obliteration. I'm gonna use a saw blade and it will be a flat disk. It's is just that the blade is gonna be sandwiched be the top and the bottom of the bot. If we, as in a class, make a wedgebot, as they always have, then I'll make TWISTER in my spare time if I have the parts. sorry if this was too long.

[1337Shockwav3]

come back when you have it built ... if you ever get there. So far I'm not aware of any bot without some kind of weak spot.

[deminisher98]

Im pretty sure the weak point is the top...

[isaactrio]

was blendo made by the guy from mythbusters?

[wrongwayup]

Yes.

[deminisher98]

Jamie and Adam

[synapsii]

yes.

[legojunk96]

ahh domore. he does more than dolittle but less than doall.

[maeon3]

You could probably defeat blendo easily if you could slow down the rotating disk. I could imagine a robot with a big arm with a car tire on it. Set it down on top of spinning blendo then apply the breaks. It keeps you at a distance and allows you to slow it down. Then go in for the attack.

[noodlesrulz]

ya except the size of the arm would be too big for the size limit

[SGplayer08]

I don't think the people who designed DoMore had simplicity in mind when they came up with that robot.

[deslithering]

That thing is a flying saucer!... only on a ground patrol

[filmidioten]

Haha that Blendo is one creepy piece of machinery, and built by none other than Jamie "Mythbuster" Hyneman!

[KillerNinjaPenguin]

Which one was blendo?

[diabolicalmachine]

Blendo was the one with the spinning dome of destruction

[BobxLawxBlaw]

The UFO-lookin' one

[sevendarkdays]

Domores desing sucks.

Theyre exposed from below and at the top, all they can hope for is that another robot goes purely for the middle.

I mean a simple pickaxe on top and that robot would've been toast.

[diabolicalmachine]

I think it was more of a defensive perimeter, like a "keep away" design. You have to remember that there was only one previous year's competition before this one...not all that much to go from.

[fefster666]

but theres a major flaw in blendo if it got hit a few times and hit other target multiple times it had the tendency to break itself apart.

[dnlkr]

You know what would have made Blendo's power level over 9000? Spikes. Lots and lots of spikes. Like..take a look at a colander, and replace all of the holes with an inch, or half an inch steel spike. That would look absolutely wicked and be banned from every competition ever from being far too badass.

[jordantime09]

lol i like tht

[xgladar]

the spikes would break off when hitting other bots, what it should get are smaller fatter bumps

[PokeDenny]

If I remember correctly, Blendo entered twice in Robot Wars but was forced to quit because of the shrapnel, but they received co-champion.

[gydeme]

wikipedia much

[blackXSpr]

I remember watching these robot battle thing ages ago, and they were exciting and fun. This is boring, slow and unexciting.

However blendo is cool, as thats what I wanted to see

[diabolicalmachine]

Its not all that fair to expect the same action in these older fights as you would in the more recent ones...This was only the 2nd robot combat competition ever, and the sport has been evolving ever since.

Honestly, I don't know what I would be able to build with the only reference being the robots from one year previous. Much easier now, when I can research what others have done and I know what works and what doesn't.

[blackXSpr]

True, it totally slipped my mind I was watching a 95 fight not a very recent one. My apologies on that, I guess the newer fights are the more exciting ones after all.

[aflow91990]

is that the DoAll team from battle bots?

[diabolicalmachine]

That's correct

[NullZer0]

lol, Blendo vs. Puss-bot!

[robotpanda77]

So badass it was banned from batlebots!

[STE4096]

blendo is such a cool spinner bot, built by the best in the business

[AXMLFK]

blendo was made by the mythbusters

[Maeror2010]

Adam did the wiring.

[Azzachuah]

no adam was also involved in the production of blendo

[BeatlesArUs]

adam did the wiring

[skwalkerdevore]

the wireing was done by adam savage

[mvallin]

check your sources people. Wiki is NOT reliable

[cmckee1387]

the mythbusters are on tv

[SomebodyofGTM]

Whats that third bot in there?

[diabolicalmachine]

The 'third bot' is the camera bot, which had a camcorder mounted a tilting mechanism. It seemed pretty well made, and I'm not sure where the footage went from all the matches.

[aieoneoneeight]

does blendo have any offensive weaponry?

[diabolicalmachine]

Offensive weaponry? Blendo's all offensive...Blendo has two large steel teeth bolted to a thick steel ring (with the dome covering the innards) that rotated around the central base of the robot. Not the fastest of rpm's but there's a lot of weight there.

Just in case you meant DoMore...DoMore has a pneumatic spike that is height adjustable on the fly. As well as its large body that is a weapon in itself.

[aieoneoneeight]

i see it now. in this battle he just nudges under domore to get points

[maikerugo]

Not just that, but in hopes that the nudge will get the teeth and ring under DoMore and at the wheels or the actual guts and tear something off/out.

[diabolicalmachine]

DoMore has lots of ground clearance so its hard to see much, but Blendo was ripping small parts off and sending them flying...with some of it going into the audience, Blendo got disqualified from the event even though it won this match by audience decision

[maikerugo]

The only problem that I see with Blendo's design is that while the shell is pretty heavy-duty, I think Jamie Hyneman sacrificed armor potential for somewhat better RPMs (too heavy of a shell or motors that don't have the torque to get up to speed after a hard strike and it would take forever to get the weapon up to usable speed—a problem with Whyachi). That being the case, when the armor gets dented up the shift in weight makes it move like a washing machine on spin cycle with shoes in it.

[maikerugo]

Interesting watching DoMore utilize its stationary, secondary weapon. At that point it's moving like Blendo, but it's purely defensive since it can't approach while spinning like that as it's using it's drive wheels to achieve that motion instead of a second motor.

[diabolicalmachine]

I agree! What's also interesting is that the builder of DoMore took off all the perimeter spikes in the 1996 event...you can still see all the (tapped?) holes in the frame for them.

[maikerugo]

Since that's the case I'd say that the spikes were primarily used to render moot any robots that use their shell as spinning weapons. A lot of other 'bots with similar low spike arrangements seem to get spikes beyond a certain length to fall prey to 'bots with lifting arms or wedge shaped shells. That's why I think the builder would remove them in the long term.

[xxdarksoulzxx]

GO JAMIE HYNEMAN AND BLENDO!!!! WOOT