REDEMPTION at Battlebots! (Round #2)
Summary
TLDRThe transcript details an intense journey of a team competing in BattleBots, a fierce robot combat competition. After an initial loss, the team perseveres, rebuilding and enhancing their robot, Orbitron, to face a new challenger, Disarray. The script vividly describes the technical challenges, strategic adjustments, and the high-stakes environment of the arena. Despite setbacks and the pressure of live fights, the team's determination and collaborative spirit shine through, leading to a triumphant victory and the anticipation of future battles. The narrative also highlights the team's innovative use of AI and their sponsorship by Shopify, which supports their business and technological advancements.
Takeaways
- π€ The team is participating in BattleBots, a competitive robot fighting event.
- π They funded and mentored a student to create Orbitron, an AI-driven robot.
- β° The team built the first version of Orbitron in just over 8 weeks.
- π Despite losing their first match in Vegas, the team is determined to improve and compete again.
- π§ They rebuilt Orbitron to be better, faster, and stronger for the rematch.
- π₯ The team's progress is documented in a series of videos sponsored by Shopify.
- π’ The BattleBots Arena is the venue where the team tests and competes with their robots.
- π The team has prepared two robots, Orbitron 2 and Orbitron 2.1, for the competition.
- π§ They faced mechanical and technical challenges, including issues with motor controllers and communication systems.
- π₯ The team also works on limited edition products to support their BattleBots endeavors.
- π After overcoming various obstacles, the team won their fights and earned a spot on the upcoming TV show.
Q & A
What is the main theme of the video?
-The main theme of the video is the journey of a team participating in the BattleBots competition, where they build, test, and compete with their robot named Orbitron.
What was the team's initial performance in the competition?
-The team initially struggled in the competition, losing their first match in Vegas, but they did not give up and rebuilt their robot to come back stronger.
What improvements did the team make to Orbitron after the initial loss?
-The team rebuilt Orbitron to be better, faster, and stronger, and they also created a second version of the robot, Orbitron 2.1, for their subsequent matches.
What challenges did the team face in terms of technology and mechanics?
-The team faced several challenges including issues with their motion tracking system, problems with their motor controllers, and difficulties with their antenna and communication systems.
How did the team prepare for their rematch?
-The team prepared for their rematch by conducting a full system check, ensuring proper communication with the controllers, tuning the speeds, accelerations, and turn radiuses, and making necessary repairs and adjustments to the robot.
What was the outcome of the team's second fight?
-The team's second fight was successful, as they managed to destroy their opponent's weapon and armor, securing a victory and earning a spot on the upcoming TV show.
What did the team do after winning the second fight?
-After winning the second fight, the team went back to the box, replaced broken parts, made necessary repairs, and prepared the robot for more testing and their next fight.
How did the BattleBots co-founder comment on the team's progress?
-The BattleBots co-founder commended the team for learning from their mistakes, improving their robot, and winning both fights. He predicted that they would be ahead of others in the TV tournament due to their experience in the Proving Grounds.
What sponsorship is mentioned in the video?
-Shopify is mentioned as a sponsor in the video, supporting the team and being a platform for starting, running, and growing a business.
What additional content and offers are available to YouTube members?
-YouTube members get access to exclusive content, such as a deep dive discussing the team's AI system, and they also receive a discount at the Hacksmith store.
What temporary offer was available for the limited edition products?
-A 20% discount was available on limited edition products until April 4th, automatically applied at checkout through the YouTube shopping buttons.
Outlines
π€ Building Orbitron for BattleBots
The paragraph discusses the journey of creating and competing with Orbitron, a robot in the BattleBots competition. The team, having previously built a robot that performed poorly, has rebuilt and improved Orbitron in just over 8 weeks. They traveled to Las Vegas to compete again, this time against a vertical spinner named Disarray built by Wildcat Robotics. The team's preparations include improving their machine vision system, adding new features, and fine-tuning the robot's performance. The video is sponsored by Shopify, which supports the team's business endeavors.
π οΈ Troubleshooting and Repairs
This paragraph details the challenges faced by the team during the setup and troubleshooting of their robot. They encounter issues with radio communication, power switches, and motor drivers. The team works diligently to diagnose and fix these problems, including replacing damaged parts and reestablishing connections. Despite the difficulties, they manage to make progress and remain hopeful for the upcoming fight.
π Reflecting on the Battle Performance
The team reflects on their performance in the BattleBots competition, highlighting their victory and the robot's performance. They discuss the effectiveness of their robot's weapon and mobility, as well as the areas that need improvement. The team celebrates their first win and receiving a wind POG, a token of their achievement. They also discuss their plans for further improvements and preparations for the next fight.
π€π₯ The Robot Rebuild and Next Fight
After their successful fight, the team focuses on rebuilding and preparing their robot for the next battle. They replace damaged components, including the forks and wheels, and clean up the weapon discs. The team also plans to test AI capabilities and ensure the robot's reliability for future matches. They express confidence in their ability to compete at a higher level, especially against legendary veteran robots.
π Breaking Barriers with AI
The team celebrates overcoming the barrier of human control by integrating AI into their robot's operation. They share their excitement about the improvements made and the data collected from the competition. The team's efforts in diagnosing and repairing the robot are commended, and they express optimism about their prospects for the TV tournament. The co-founder of BattleBots acknowledges the team's growth and anticipates their strong performance in future events.
Mindmap
Keywords
π‘BattleBots
π‘Orbitron
π‘Robot Fighting
π‘AI-driven
π‘Proving Grounds
π‘Laser Cutting
π‘Camera Tracking
π‘ESC
π‘Sponsorship
π‘Maker.io
π‘Shopify
π‘Robot Repairs
Highlights
The team funded and mentored a student to create Orbitron, an AI-driven BattleBot.
Orbitron was built in just over 8 weeks, showcasing an impressively quick turnaround for such a complex project.
Despite losing their first match, the team's perseverance led to a rebuilt and improved version of Orbitron.
The team returned to Vegas to face a new contender, Disarray, a vertical spinner built by Wildcat Robotics.
Orbitron's design was optimized for fighting vertical spinners, giving the team a good chance of victory.
The team had to deal with the challenge of potential interference from a mini bot used by Disarray.
A new addition to Orbitron included the ability to mask out different regions of the image, improving machine vision.
The team faced technical difficulties with their motor drivers and backlight cables, but managed to make quick repairs.
The team replaced three motor controllers, demonstrating their ability to swiftly address and resolve hardware issues.
The team's efforts were sponsored by Shopify, an all-in-one commerce platform that facilitated the creation and growth of their business.
Orbitron secured a victory, earning its first win POG and demonstrating the effectiveness of their AI system.
The team's victory was praised by the co-founder of BattleBots, who recognized their improvement and potential for future success.
The team's robot performed well, maintaining its structural integrity and causing significant damage to the opponent's bot.
The team plans to continue improving their AI andζΊε¨δΊΊ, aiming for the world championship and a spot on the TV show.
Limited edition products were created to support the team, including scale models of Orbitron and official team jerseys.
The team's success was attributed to their ability to learn from mistakes and make effective improvements.
The team's victory and the co-founder's comments suggest a promising future for their participation in the TV tournament.
Transcripts
fight fight
fight the battle
begin Oh
No 3 2
1 to the battle
box we're competing on BattleBots the
most brutal robot fighting competition
in the world we've already got three
videos on this but in case you missed it
we funded and mentored W student to
create orbitron one of the first aid
driven Battle Bots time was limited but
we managed to build a full bot in just
over 8 weeks drove to Vegas for our
first proven grounds match and lost
terribly but we don't give up we rebuilt
it better faster and stronger and now
the team's back in Vegas to fight a new
Contender disarray another vertical
spinner built by Wildcat robotics will
we be Victorious and secure a spot on
the upcoming TV show or will this be the
end of orbitron this video is sponsored
by Shopify the best place to start run
and grow a
business we're at the BattleBots Arena
and our robot's here let's open it
up wait one robot we mean two thanks to
Avid CNC we can machine the frames inous
so now we have enough parts for two
robots meaning we're good for both
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fights big
spin we have we have orbitron 2 and
orbitron
2.1 no they're they're the same thing
they're just
the exact same Parts times two so we're
fighting daray desay is another vertical
spinner it's got a big drum with two
teeth on either end um it's a pretty
wide bot so it have a very stable stance
but um since this time we're fighting a
vertical spinner and our robot is more
optimized for a vertical spinner I think
we have a good chance we've noticed in
the past FS that disarray is done
they've ran a miniot and we're not sure
if they're going to run it this time but
that could potentially screw up our
Machine Vision because our system our
main motion tracking uses motion
detection and the mini bot is motion so
sometimes it might actually lose
tracking of their bot and go after the
miniot which would not be good are you
worried at all if they bring the
miniot uh for mechanical reasons no for
Peter yes um and the problem is we won't
really be able to test that until
tomorrow as long as we click on the
right bot and we have set the minimum
size right that min mini bot should be
just filtered
out
cool
outstanding oh no setting up the camera
I'm going to try and make sure the
angle's good we can see like the whole
field it's nice and focus now one of the
new additions this time is we added the
ability to mask out different regions of
the image and that kind of fooled our
our tracking before it was the screws
last time right yeah and I'm just going
to draw a rectangle and then block them
out so now it shouldn't get fooled if
they move cuz they're gone
so I glued the magnet arrays on Saturday
and Sunday packed them up threw them in
the crate so now we have to do is take
them put the Emi shield in the back and
drop them into the robot we have to just
kind of get them in there hopefully
pinch no fingers I have got gloves for a
reason and then we should be stuck to
the ground with 100 lb more
Force okay don't tilt it down got it yep
Forks good we are installing the
batteries for the first time at the
BattleBots Arena well not not the first
time but like the first time here we're
going to do a full system check make
sure we have full communication with the
controllers all the motor temperatures
look good and then we're going to the
Box we're going to do our uh Drive
testing and tuning so we're going to
make sure we're tuning with the magnets
we have the right wheels on in place now
so we're going to make sure we have as
much traction as we can get we going to
tune the speeds the accelerations the
turn radiuses the camera overlay test
all of our software changes and make
sure our camera mount is perfect and if
all goes well we'll be ready to fight
tomorrow if you'd like to see the full
schematic diagram make sure to check out
our maker.io Link in the description
below do you have one drive okay how
about the other one yes
cool yeah let's talk about controllers
let's address the elephant in the room
here so in our first fight we had our
PlayStation 5 dual sense controller
connected via USB to Peter's laptop and
at some point during the match we know
exactly what point it decided to
disconnect so we said screw wireless
controllers and we have these Microsoft
officially licensed Xbox controllers
that are just wired and then we have one
and another one and another
one and another one we're not having a
controller disconnect this
time
it's Center Board One Drive working on
it Peter we have radio we have radio
okay we lost the
radio every team has offse break the
indicator light on this side so we are
going to fix
that sound
yeah um it made a terrible popping noise
when I turned it
on yeah so do we have anything are we
talking anything right now nothing okay
we're calling
it I'm going to grab you go down that
way that way
sure okay yeah I'm worried wir let's
just pull that side off that side's easy
to pull off we never saw this drive turn
on that might have been what blew up
yeah to the front is the best canot get
power I do not
know well we pinched our
backlight cables and that's a bit of a
problem because the backlight goes
directly to the batteries so our motor
drivers aren't working and motor dri
aren working the motor's aren working
and the bot's not working so we're going
to try to cut the cables here where
they're pinched you can see all that's
exposed cut splice add the new length on
and hopefully nothing's permanently
damaged and it works the switch BW when
he
starts switch
pop the only thing that appears to be
normal is the drive
yeah I don't know what else I'm
expecting to get out of this we know
that the dryve vesque we know the one
drve vesk is somewhat alive we know that
weapon desk is somewhat alive so right
now we know that this ESC is probably
not dead yes we don't know about the
this one cuz we couldn't turn it on
let's fix the can and then see if the
drive comes on
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okay so we know a couple things are
wrong this switch may not survive um we
know our can harness took some damage we
know one of our switches is
dead and we that's all we know we have
to fix those two items before we can
actually go and diagnose other things
[Music]
more we fixed a power switch and the
Cann bu harness and the end indicator
light wires and we're hoping that will
fix absolutely everything but then this
is the the bar that wasn't working right
now we see the VES Express and that
drive as soon as I try to reload it just
dies totally oh oh no I mean when we had
power this's plan team replace three
motor controllers all three that kind of
out of the robot so we get to see how
quickly we can replace them
now
right now we have three working escs in
the robot and one not
working yeah so then tomorrow we have to
get another working ESC in there okay
whatever that means not a good first
day before we fight and potentially
watch our hopes and dreams go up in
Flames like last time I want to tell you
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get started today now back to the fight
wish us
luck where we at we kind of ended last
night not knowing what's up we came in
this morning with a fresh set of eyes
and determined that the issue was
nothing that we thought it was yay for
fresh set of eyes we replaced the
controller board that was bad we did not
replace the motor controller from
yesterday so now we have to go take it
back outside and do the full Suite of
calibration on all the motors and yeah I
guess on all the motors and then make
sure we're good and get
testing okay I'm going to switch to the
other one make sure that forward is in
fact forward
clear we have four motor controllers
working in the robot they have spun up
all the motors we are just going through
verifying the firmware on all the boards
s going to button up the robot get the
weapons on in the Box this robot's
throwing with my with my emotions I
don't know it works it doesn't work it
kind of works it kind of doesn't work
everything's closed up and we're seeing
all the data now and it's being very
responsive so I'm really
hopeful I'm trying to connect to it what
you're not seeing right here is we're
having control issues with the robot
we're not getting data from the computer
at a regular interval and that just
makes the robot uncontrollable we can't
fight with the robot in this
condition what's
happening this board is really something
about this assembly is like he so it's
happy right now and we do this and it's
[Music]
dead so this wire that is supposed to be
soldered to there just
isn't
[Music]
yes so our next hypothesis is just the
antenna got damaged I still don't know
why these guys aren't working properly
but these ones have been notoriously
worse than the center board so we're our
next test is to try swapping the antenna
and um hopefully that'll fix it in the
diagnostic process we got to the point
where we're basically tearing out the
center board uh so we're just going to
replace it with another
one
don't stop point to get the robot Tong
don't mess
up that was good except for I'm holding
a magnet in my hand we're going to look
at the magnet arrays if we sheared the
threads out then we're not going to run
the magnets if the screws just loosened
out from vibrations we're going to lock
tap the screws and run the magnets we're
going to change the
batteries and get
[Music]
ready multiple robots uh we've done
everything we can the boss powering up
all of our drivers are connecting we
have at least improved our communication
we've seen a drive our Forks are working
at least a little bit better so I'm
hopeful yeah I'm ready all I have to do
is turn on the robot and take the tooth
covers off
believe fight number three lucky
[Music]
one
[Applause]
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ners are high let's make a spash
disarray or like
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disassembled
fight fight fight fight
[Music]
fight
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in 10 9
8 guys go all the way back to okay
[Music]
back
[Music]
that was awesome we've got the replay
going here and this feel good you guys
start it
[Applause]
off we're looking really really good the
forks are bent up again that's fine
that's how they're supposed to happen
there's some chips on the weapon discs
maybe a little more than we were hoping
for but we destroyed their ar500 weapon
and armor but I think I don't think
we're changing anything
yeah every time you win a battle B you
get a wind POG and the idea is you put
them on the side of your Bot like kills
like in World War II you know you put
like a whatever right kill count yeah
kill
count thank
you that means so uh that everyone who
wins a fight in battle gets a winall so
congratulations that's our first one TV
tapings we actually put all you see the
kids they're actually all yeah perfect
you get another one tomorrow yeah what
went right was we had traction we could
move controllably my favorite clip is
the very first few seconds of the match
when you know we claimed the center
really quick and then we adjusted for
where they were going I think what needs
to change in terms of Mobility is I was
over steering quite a lot so I think
there's some stability stuff we can do
to start the radio's actually performed
so that's the big thing we could talk to
the robot unfortunately we were
struggling to lock the vision we got it
around halfway through but then they
were under the camera spot so I couldn't
really there wasn't much it could track
cuz it's literally just blocked off but
and then the match ended and I was like
wait it's over like what cuz I was just
looking at the screen and then suddenly
we're walking off so I'm I was like
confused we got to take the forks off
we're just going to drop new ones on
we're going to change out the bar we're
going to clean up the disc bend the self
Rider
straight and that's it I couldn't be
happier
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so after our fight yesterday we went
rebuild the robot fixed everything that
was broken we got it back in the box
with the old Wheels the ones we were
testing in the morning so now we're
going to put it back in the box for more
time make sure that everything's good
because we are and we want to test AI
stuff and then we're going to take it
back to the pits pull the side armor
panels off swap the wheels get new
batteries in it and be ready for our
next fight around
3:30
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[Applause]
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to
whoa couple of Speedy Bots wow a
few the little guy look at shark baby
looks like he's
ready we're going to send you into
orbit disarray I think
disassembled okay
okay F fight fight fight fight there
they
go apart from
somebody what I worry about the little
guy Steve me too not going to I'd stay
out the way follow
him oh
for you can feel the power of this
weapon taking disarray the little guy's
com to go now he's on his
side oh no
there we
go okay this I'm going to need to see
some movement or I'm counting you
out okay in 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
1 1
[Music]
knockout yes
no
fires wow they are uh they are
destroyed oh they are uh they're worried
about
[Music]
dis it went better than last time I
don't know what else to say our robot is
in just as much of One Piece as it was
last time and the robot is in
significantly more pieces than it was
last
time I don't think we could have asked
for literally anymore this is the first
round where we've actually broken the
barrier of human control it was a
honestly minor difference but to say
that we've done it now just feels so
good and we got the data so we can keep
improving I'm just happy we're off the
ground All Things Considered everything
went awesome the team did a great job
diagnosing and fixing the robot during
the kind of Trials of Friday and
Saturday morning the repairs last night
went beautiful we were had no concerns
about being ready for the fight today
and both fights just went really well
they went really as well as we could
have asked it was a lot of fun I'm glad
we did
this now that's what I'm talking about I
wish I could have been there shortly
after the fight the co-founder of
BattleBots had this to say they came um
you know like a month ago or whatever
and they lost both fights and then they
came this time and they won both fights
you know so he kind of looked at their
mistakes they made they found ways to
fix them they found ways to make them
better I guarantee you when they show up
for the TV tournament you know which
they will they're going to be way ahead
of everybody else that doesn't you know
doesn't come play in the in the
opportunity with the Proving Grounds so
we're pretty confident that we're going
to be on the TV show but we have our
work cut out for us if we want to win
against legendary veterans like
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