A BRIEF HISTORY OF BATTLE BOTS

Feb 1998 Robot Wars - Activate! The game show about homemade robots fighting to the death debuted on BBC 2, wowing up to 6 million viewers at its peak and airing for five years. Mar 2006 War machine The US military-funded Boston Dynamics unveiled BigDog, a packhorse-like android designed to work in real-life robot wars. Sept 2011 Reel Steel Huge Jackman reminded Robot Wars fans how epic machine-on-machine combat could be in this Oscar-nominated movie. July 2015 Grudge match The American creators of a 15-feet-tall robot called MegaBot challenged a Japanese mech called Kuratas to a battle. Jan 2016 Robot Wars rebooted The BBC announced Robot Wars will return for a six-part series ‘later this year,’ duking it out in a purpose-built bulletproof arena in Glasgow. July 2016 Show down…

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