/technologies/robotics/b/blog/posts/robot-combat-league-8-tall-robots-box-each-other-feb-26thwww.youtube.com/watch Robot combat has been around for nearly two decades since the formation of Robot Wars in San Francisco back in the early 90s. Since then, a myriad of worldwide robot competitions and television shows have invited engineers ...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/robotics/b/blog/posts/robot-combat-league-8-tall-robots-box-each-other-feb-26thTue, 26 Feb 2013 20:56:21 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:ee0ba204-815f-4d61-9d7a-32e8cc5beeb0DAB0<p>I plan to watch the initial event, but I have mixed emotions about the concept.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You essentially have tele-operated robots with human boxers.&nbsp; A lot of the matches will be determined by who finds the weak areas of the robots, not necessarily on who has the better skills.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would rather see full robots that could independently fight one another, though I suspect that the legal liabilities over an out of control robot tearing up the crowd is too much for our current technoloty.&nbsp; Would be an interesting contest though.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just a thought,</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=14738&AppID=36&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">