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Team HyperShock Competes in BattleBots

What does it take to design, build, and repair one of BattleBots’ most iconic robots—under extreme pressure and even more extreme conditions?

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This season, the element14 Community goes behind the scenes with Team HyperShock, bringing you exclusive content that puts real‑world engineering front and center.

Sponsored by Multicomp Pro, this Community production showcases how professional‑grade tools and test equipment are used in one of the most demanding applications imaginable: competitive combat robotics.

What’s Coming

Throughout the BattleBots Pro League season, members of Team HyperShock will share their experience, insights, and hard‑won lessons directly with the element14 Community.

HyperShock Hacks (Coming Soon)
A new series of short, practical videos hosted by Team HyperShock, highlighting hands‑on tips straight from the build and repair process.image

Team Interviews & Community Content (Coming Soon)
Go deeper with behind‑the‑scenes interviews, engineering discussions, and insights into how HyperShock prepares for competition
* Plus Community giveaways and special features throughout the season.



About the Sponsor: Multicomp Pro
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– the engineer’s choice – is proud to sponsor Team HyperShock in this season’s BattleBots competition. See the power supply, thermal imager, and more that they used to build their bot.

Multicomp Pro, the Engineer’s Choice, offers a portfolio of more than 70,000 products designed to meet the quality standards engineers expect—while delivering savings compared to branded alternatives. The range supports engineers at every level and spans test and measurement, power, tools, enclosures, and electromechanical components, making it well suited for education, production‑ready designs, and even builds tough enough to survive the BattleBox—like HyperShock!

Explore the Multicomp Pro range

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Catch Up on Past Content from Previous Seasons

The element14 Community already hosts content from previous seasons, including

  • What does it take to design, build, and repair one of BattleBots’ most iconic robots—under extreme pressure and even more extreme conditions?

Watch the behind the scenes & exclusive interview videos with Team HyperShock and James Lewis.

Recorded AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Will Bales, captain of Team HyperShock.

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Multicomp Pro, the Engineer’s Choice, offers a portfolio of more than 70,000 products designed to meet the quality standards engineers expect—while delivering savings compared to branded alternatives. The range supports engineers at every level and spans test and measurement, power, tools, enclosures, and electromechanical components, making it well suited for education, production‑ready designs, and even builds tough enough to survive the BattleBox—like HyperShock!


Explore the Multicomp Pro range!

Exclusive interview & Behind the Scenes Videos:






Have YOU Wondered How the HyperShock BattleBot Works? Find out in our Ask Me Anything webinar with Team HyperShock!

Watch Recording of the event where Will Bales answered Community questions about HyperShock, from its controllers and drive trains to the deadly vertical spinner.

Exclusive Interview with Will Bales of Team HyperShock and James Lewis

jamesJames Lewis from WorkBench Wednesdays, AKA The Bald Engineer leaves his own lab to visit the Pits of BattleBots and joins Team HypberShock in their lab for the filming of The BattleBots World Championship VII. Join James and Team Captain Will Bales, as we take the armor off their bot Hypershock to get a better understanding what’s inside.

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Try the Multicomp Pro tools entrusted by Team HyperShock.

  • in reply to DAB

    "Kinetic kill" is an aspect that I do not think translates to the physical world.

    Seeing the bots destroy each other on TV is fun.

    Seeing and hearing the noises live is thrilling.

    Touching one of the bots and realizing it weighs more than an average person is mind-blowing.

    Seeing them fly around the ring is awesome. And then, realize they weigh 250 lbs each! That, to me, gives a new meaning to kinetic energy.

  • I have enjoyed battlebots for many decades.

    It has been an interesting show to follow as the technology keeps evolving.

    In the early days you just had push bots, which were less than exciting, but now you have the kinetic kill technology that is really fun to watch.

  • in reply to emeketos

    a tradeoff of power vs weight make sense given the rules, seems these events are so unlikely overall that its not worth protecting these parts. still feels odd to me.

    tombstone was such a dominant bot and it had open wheels but getting a weapon towards them was very unlikely.
    I favor competition to destruction over points as it is in other combat series, but given the rule hypershock is under this design is a bit more understandable.

    My hopes for this season is more carnage and wrecked bots instead of one just stopping to move after a few hits..

  • I am not a builder or on any team but I think I can answer the exposed wheel question. The answer is simply weight where do you take the weight out of to build a cage or enlarge the frame to now hold the tires which cause more space issues inside the frame. tombstone's Ray billings(sp?) on Scorpios youtube channel talked about this. someone did a win loss ratio of bots with the tires protected and exposed and it slightly favored the exposed tires over the protected but otherwise didn't impact the win/loss rate. Hypershock also runs with 4 tires which gives it better traction and speed over all 2 wheeled bots taking a loss of 1 tire will not prevent the bot from moving possibly up to 2 tire losses if they aren't on the same side.  with the new rules on what is considered movement, they will not be counted out with both tires on the same side removed, while their movement will be very restricted it's not an auto-loss. 

    Ray's interview www.youtube.com/watch

  • I want to know why the Wheels  and chains are exposed, this makes no sense to me but I'm sure there is a good reason for that design choice. In battle of course you´d rather let amotor bun out instead of popping a fuse and risking immobility so why risk a cahin getting tangeled or a tire ripped?
    Also I´d like to know if certain types of weapons are outlawed. I haven´t seen widia blades on nay of the bots, but it seems like an obvious addon to any high speed spinner.

  • Meeting the team, talking to Will, and getting to see the "Battlebots pit" was one of the coolest things I have ever gotten to do.

    I asked them a few questions, but, what would you like to know?!