UCLA's Battlebots Team Prepares for (Controlled) Destruction A UCLA team recently reached the third round of the annual RoboGames with a combat robot named Wedgie. They explain how it works and what's ...

There's a certain excitement inherent in the metal-against-metal battles that pit robots against each other in an action-packed thunderdome. For over a decade, the nonprofit group Robotics Society of ...

Inside UCLA's Boelter Hall, the university's Battlebots team works on several categories of robots, including 60-pound and 3-pound drum spinners, "thwackbots," and horizontal spinners—all combat ...