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Links to Robotics sites
Here are some sites that can help provide you with information about robot fighting, and how you can get involved. Check it out!
Robot Stores
www.andruseng.com, This is Earl Andrus Engineering's website. They make very durable robot parts, and have variety of robot platform kits that are specifically engineered for a particular weight division!
www.robotmarketplace.com, this is a wonderful place to buy combat robot parts. You can find nearly everything here!
www.batteriesamerica.com, A great place to buy all kinds of batteries in several different brands at extremley low prices.
www.robotpower.com, this site sells many types of motor controllers for nearly any size bot.
www.npcrobotics.com , this site sells a variety of robot parts but mostly parts for the big bots. NPC Robotics specializes in good drive motors for combat robots.
www.vantec.com, you can find some decent motor controllers for robots here.
www.ifirobotics.com, this company is serious about powerful motor controllers. At this site you will find some of the best motor controllers out there!
www.sozbots.com, If you are wanting to get into robot fighting but are tight on a budget, then try building an antweight robot from parts at Sozbots.
www.Futaba-rc.com, this is a site that makes radio control systems that you will need to build your bot. I recommend Futaba radios for younger builders like myself because they cost much less, but still offer decent durablity.
Information and Resources
www.buildersdb.com, this is a site containing information on most of the events and teams in the country. If you want to start a team, then it is best to get a team name on the buildersdb.
www.battlebots.com, there is a load of information that you can find on this site if you look around.
www.teamkiss.com/antweight.html, This is a good tutorial with more than a few good tips on building an antweight.
www.botcast.com, this is where you can find live internet broadcasts of robotic events that are going on throughout the nation.
Events
www.botleague.com, this is the website for the RFL (Robot Fighting Leauge) The RFL currently helps organize many of the robotic combat tournaments in the US.
www.secr.org, This it the website of the S.E.C.R. It is a non-profit organization that holds events in the south eastern area of the usa.
www.robotconflict.com, This is the homepage of N.E.R.C. They organize a few events in the northeastern area.
www.ncrsf.com, the home of the North Carolina Robot Streetfight. Hosted by Litewav robotics, NCRSF is one of my favorite competitions.
www.steelconflict.com, this is a big robot combat competition in California.
www.battlebeach.com, a robotic combat event in the Daytona Beach area, hosted by Team Logicom.
www.botbash.com, another good robot combat event in the California area, also a source for robot combat news.
www.tcmechwars.com, this event fights even bigger robots than most events do, they decided to name the new weight division Mechwars (340 LB.)
www.murconline.com, this is a site to a mid US robotics club.
www.poundofpain.com, This is a robot combat event for the smaller robots such as antweights and beetleweights that is held near the east coast normally in the northern area.
www.g-forcelabs.com, The home of a well-known event that is hosted in Orlando, Florida.
www.sozbots.com, this is an event in the western part of the us that fights the antweight division robots.
Team Websites
I know that these are certainly not all of the teams out there but these are just a few that I can think of.
If I have not listed your team here and you would like to have your team's website listed here, just e-mail your site's web address to me at Probotbuilder@aol.com and I will gladly post it on the links page.
