The engineers and roboticists at Limitless IQ have developed a fighting robot that they think can win the ROBO-ONE tournament. The group says that their robot, Super Anthony, can be used to teach advanced hardware control, programming, assembly, and robot skills. Limitless is currently running a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to fund their first production run of fighting robots.
Super Anthony can be controlled with a Playstation controller or through a smartphone app. The group says that what sets this robot apart from other bipedal fighting robots is the IQ4516HV servo motors that produce 45 kilogram-centimeters of torque. The robot’s body is a fifteen axis system that allows for more flexibility and additional motions when fighting. InnoBASIC Workshop is the app that is recommended to customize the robots, with ideas to add image recognition, GPS, and voice activation to the fighting system.
The robot’s frame is made from aluminum and weighs 4.6 pounds. Overall dimensions are 14.9 x 9.4 x 4.7 inches. The controllers uses an Innovati Servo Commander 16 along with Arduino base to control the 15 servos already on the robot with one port available for expansion. The Bluetooth is a Texas Instruments CC2541 Bluetooth 4.0 Module, operating at 2.4 Gigahertz ISM frequency.
To really appreciate Super Anthony and the company that’s building a small army of small fighting robots, your brain has to wrap around the scope of world robot fighting. This falls somewhere between Rockem Sockem Robots and Real Steel, with ROBO-ONE hosting tournaments worldwide every year. I hope that robot boxing is less destructive and the damage less permanent than a Battlebots type competition. Several moves are already programmed into the bots and can be executed with the push of a button but users are encouraged to develop their own combos and finishing moves. I'd love to see more specs for these robots but somehow I'm sure that other robot boxing teams would find a way to use the information to their competitive advantage. The campaign is already successful and will end on July 15, with robots currently scheduled to ship starting at the end of 2018.