Teams

Follow the History of the Teams in Bots High

September 1, 2011

Bots High takes place over the 2009-2010 school year. Unsurprisingly, the teams had a history before and after the time the film takes place (2011 Epilogue now in the DVD!). So to expand the scope and add some cool context and backstory to the Oct 6 screening day, I’ve been tracing the history of each team [...]

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Full, Unedited Robot Battles Posted from BattleBots / BotsIQ 2011

April 28, 2011

By popular request, I’m posting the raw video from fights I shot at BotsIQ 2011 (and 2010, the competition in the film). Teams like to analyze the fights frame by frame to see what happened. Right now I’m posting El Cholo and Fluffy DeLarge fights. If you have any requests, email me. I know it’s [...]

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Danielle: “It’s Like a Nerd’s Version of a Football Game” [Character Poster]

February 8, 2011
Danielle - My Mechanical Romance

“It’s like a nerd’s version of a football game.” Danielle – My Mechanical Romance Danielle, waiting for a match to start with her robot Famous Last Words.

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Camilla: “Let’s Hope it Isn’t a Fail” [Character Poster]

January 13, 2011
Camilla - Mechanical Misfits

Let’s Hope it Isn’t a Fail The Mechanical Misfits – the name pretty much says it all. Here Misfit member Camilla is holding their robot Lil’ Kanye (“Cause he’ll never let you finish”).

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Girls in Robotics

January 12, 2011
Girls in Robotics

One of the biggest elements in Bots High is featuring girls build robots and involved in fields that statistically you don’t usually see them in – science and engineering. Two of the three featured teams are all-girls teams (My Mechanical Romance and Mechanical Misfits), and girls play important roles on the other teams as well. [...]

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Will: “There’s cutting it close and then there’s absurdity” [Character Poster]

January 2, 2011
Will - Team Fluffy

New poster for Will. There’s cutting it close, and then there’s absurdity. That was the latter. Check out the last poster on Elizabeth.

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Elizabeth: “You’re a girl, you do BattleBots?” [Character Poster]

December 22, 2010
Elizabeth - My Mechanical Romance

Above is one of four character posters from the film. I had a lot of fun putting these together. As you can see, they’re really simple and each features a favorite quote of mine that they say in the film. “You’re a girl, you do BattleBots? Do you even know what a motor is?” I [...]

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The First Adventures of ROFL

February 26, 2010
The First Adventures of ROFL

The First Adventures of ROFL from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. ROFL is a BattleBot unlike anything you’ve seen before. It’s described as an angry child having a temper tantrum. In later adventures, I put a camera in the box with ROFL and let him go at it. Stay tuned for that pretty funny footage.

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Flamin’ Fluffy at Mayhem in Miami

November 16, 2009
Flamin Fluffy

The Explosive End of Fluffy from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. The first Miami BattleBots competition went off this past weekend. As you can see in the video, I don’t think you could have asked for a more spectacular ending. Stay tuned for some more videos from the competition.

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Miami Science Museum Competition

October 13, 2009
Balloon Popping

This past Sunday was a task competition at the Miami Science Museum. A ring is filled with 10 red and 10 blue balloons, and the task is to design a robot to pop an assigned color, plus a white balloon on the back of your opponent, while preventing yours from being popped. While this isn’t [...]

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