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  • Carbide
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  • Carbide is a heavyweight robot which competed in Series 8-9 of Robot Wars. It reached the Grand Final in Series 8, finishing runners-up to eventual champion Apollo after a close final-round battle. Carbide returned for Series 9 and won the championship after going undefeated throughout the entire series. According to the official Robot Wars website, Team Carbide rated their chances of winning Series 8 at '10 out of 10', and the robot featured heavily in promotional trailers, with the BBC listing Carbide as one of the most destructive robots in the series.
  • The Carbide was first introduced in the AcceleRacers series, being driven by the Silencerz. In 2014, the tooling for the car was updated; the spoiler was updated very slightly.
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robot name
  • Carbide
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Team
Power
  • 2
Speed
  • 15.0
Series
  • 8
  • Series 8
  • AcceleRacers Silencerz
team members
  • Dave Moulds
  • Sam Smith
  • Sheryl Prior
Name
  • Carbide
Caption
  • Carbide in Series 9
Weight
  • 110.0
Weapons
  • Bar spinner
Successor
  • Eruption
Years
  • 2005
Position
  • UK Runner-up
Designer
Predecessor
  • Storm 2
abstract
  • Carbide is a heavyweight robot which competed in Series 8-9 of Robot Wars. It reached the Grand Final in Series 8, finishing runners-up to eventual champion Apollo after a close final-round battle. Carbide returned for Series 9 and won the championship after going undefeated throughout the entire series. According to the official Robot Wars website, Team Carbide rated their chances of winning Series 8 at '10 out of 10', and the robot featured heavily in promotional trailers, with the BBC listing Carbide as one of the most destructive robots in the series.
  • The Carbide was first introduced in the AcceleRacers series, being driven by the Silencerz. In 2014, the tooling for the car was updated; the spoiler was updated very slightly.
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