Riptide Battlebot

01/19/2024

Flashback Friday - to High School. Ethan Kurtz talks about the design of his 12th grade Vex robot. This bot won 48 consecutive matches that year, including winning states, a national championship and Google's national event twice –right before COVID closed down Vex Worlds. It was then that Ethan decided to get into combat robotics.

Ethan Kurtz won 58 consecutive matches in 12th grade at Vex. He won the Google Championship twice, a State Championship and an International Championship. ...

01/18/2024

A family just ordered Riptide Battlebot parts for an upcoming surprise event for their son. Checkout our ebay page for parts or ask us for shirts, and other gear. There is something for everyone and every price range. Offers accepted. Direct Messages for other gear accepted. Thank you for your support. Let's Go! https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2512315.m570.l1313&_nkw=riptide+bb&_sacat=0

01/03/2024

Ethan discusses, with a young builder, how Riptide's unique weapon geometry helps to get that bite.

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A question comes from a young robotics builder during an outreach visit with Felix and Ethan at Rolling Robots in Palos Verdes.With an average knockout time ...

12/21/2023

Check out our latest YouTube video, where we talk about the development of our weapon system over the last two seasons! Ethan discusses our thought process behind the decisions we've made, issues we've had, and how we solved them! The link is here and in our bio: https://youtu.be/hwFchYKv4zw

06/02/2023

What an awesome fight! We’re extremely proud of Felix for stepping up and making our team proud, and congratulations to Copperhead / Poison Arrow - BattleBot for putting an end to our 6 fight KO streak! While we would’ve loved to push onwards to the Giant Nut, we’re grateful for the learning opportunity this season gave us and we’ll be back next year with improvements to our robot and team overall. Thank you to all our fans for supporting us throughout the season, and we hope to make you even more proud next year!

05/23/2023

Get ready for a sssscale-crushing showdown as Riptide 🌊 prepares to wash away the venomous Copperhead! 🐍 This fight will leave Copperhead wishing it stayed on land, because on Thursday, it's sink or swim, baby! 🌊🤖💥

05/18/2023

Wave goodbye to Team Hypershock's beast of a robot? Riptide is bringing a tsunami of destruction! 🌊🤖 Get ready for a splash zone of epic proportions!

05/02/2023

Ready for round 2? 🥊 Riptide's gonna make Shatter!'s hammer look like a pool noodle! 😂🌊 Tune in on Thursday and watch us turn Shatter! into Splatter! 💦🤖

04/19/2023

Riptide is ready to make waves tomorrow against our friends at Uairrior in our second main event of the season! Can we turn Black Dragon into an endangered species before it ties the all-time no-KO record?🐉🥊🌊 Tune in tomorrow night to find out!