Texas Twister - BattleBots

09/26/2022

Good luck to all our friends sending their heavyweight robots to Las Vegas for next month's season of BattleBots.

Team Toad will not be there this year, so we'll be cheering you all on from afar.

This is what Las Vegas looked like in November 2000 when we competed in our first tournament, Season 2 on Comedy Central.

08/16/2021

12/10/2020

10/28/2020

Just wanted to remind everyone that Team Toad did not go to BattleBots this season, and Texas Twister has been safely stored in our shop in Texas for the whole year.

We will not be on TV this winter.

That means we'll be watching along with you once it airs... we don't even know who won.

08/24/2020

Team Toad salutes BattleBots and wishes all the competitors success in October!

As a reminder, Team Toad did not enter this year, so we'll be watching along with the rest of you when Season 5 airs.

03/08/2020

Happy International Women's Day to the BattleBots Women builders.

Photo by JCRB Photography.

02/07/2020

We have good news and bad news.

The good news is that BattleBots will be filming in April.

The bad news is that Team Toad did not enter this year's competition, so we won't be there.

We wish good luck to all the teams working feverishly to finish their bots in time.

10/15/2019

Nico showing off the current Team Toad fleet of combat robots.

- Texas Twister (top left)
- Blizzard (top right)
- Avalanche (lower left)
- FrostBite (lower right)

10/13/2019

Video from Team Toad's visit to Rice University's CS35, the 35th anniversary of the Computer Science Dept.

Fuzzy earned his bachelor's in CS from Rice back in 1981, just three years before the computer science program at Rice became its own department.

Keith Cooper is the chair of the CAAM program.

JT was one of the offspring of Rice grads present. I had to ration driving time, since I was using NiCads in Treadbot (so I wouldn't need to bring a fire extinguisher).

Last Friday I took Texas Twister and Treadbot to Rice University for the 35th anniversary of the Computer Science Department. JT patiently waited his turn to...