Defender - BattleBot

01/13/2024

The H.A.N.D. project has been temping me for around a year now! I’m glad to finally share some of the most recent renderings!

This project was a perfect way of retiring some old battle damaged parts and outdated brushed components. It’s challenging to go three minutes with a control robot against a spinner repeatedly. It’s certainly not sustainable with the same old frame.

We’re thankful that robotic art expos such as Open Sauce and Robogames give these opportunities to branch out from what’s reasonable in a combat arena! We’ve been learning a lot with this project.

04/10/2023

Some of our favorite pictures from RoboGames 2023!

We were happy to leave with a fully functional robot and a 2nd place trophy for our static art bot!

📸: JCRB Photography

03/21/2023

Introducing King Crab! These are the most up to date renderings for RoboGames 2023!

Unfortunately we just heard that flamethrowers will not be allowed this time around, but we added the effect to the renderings anyway. We hope we get to fight with it soon, it’s really dialed in thanks to Calvin Iba!

Test videos coming soon! - Jason

08/04/2022

Defender is back for the season premier of BattleBots Champions TONIGHT at 8pm on Discovery!

Thanks again to our incredible sponsors!
Waterway Plastics
MaxAmps.com and
Crane Technology - WaterJet Cutting & Fabrication

03/29/2022

What a wild first season for Defender! Of course we would have liked to go further, but we are very happy with how well we did this first time out.

Defender was built to be unique and to give Jason the opportunity to fight in the BattleBox. It did that and more, making it into the top 34 out of a field of 63 bots!

This may or may not be the end of our BattleBots journey this season, so stay tuned!

Defender is sponsored by:
Waterway Plastics
Crane Technology - WaterJet Cutting and
MaxAmps.com

03/23/2022

Now that we've made it into the top 34, we’ll have to get through Hydra to move on in the tournament. Can we pull off an upset like Whiplash did last season?

Tune in this Thursday at 8pm on Discovery to find out!

As always, thanks to our incredible sponsors for all of their generous support!
Waterway Plastics
Crane Technology and
MaxAmps.com

03/06/2022

Our fight against Retrograde is the BattleBots YouTube exclusive this week, and it’s out TODAY! https://youtu.be/j6tL8a02ibs

Defender is sponsored by:
Waterway Plastics
Crane Technology, and
MaxAmps.com

It's Robot Fighting Time!Defender and Retrograde are giving it all! Subscribe: https://bit.ly/3Cz90mJShow Synopsis: With all the thrills and edge-of-your-sea...

03/04/2022

A little sneak peek of our fight with Retrograde! The full fight will be available this Sunday on the official BattleBots YouTube channel ... stay tuned!

Defender is sponsored by:
Waterway Plastics
Crane Technology, and
MaxAmps.com

03/03/2022

Defender is back this week on BattleBots, taking on Retrograde!

The full fight will be the YouTube Exclusive on the BattleBots YouTube channel this Sunday. We will post a link as soon as it's available.

Thanks to our sponsors for their support this season!
Waterway Plastics
Crane Technology, and
MaxAmps.com

📸 Daniel Hart Longmire

02/13/2022

***Spoilers ahead***
We did it! We won our first fight this season and we're really happy how it all played out.

After the first few exchanges, our grab arm broke and we were unable to self right if we needed to. For that reason we did not use the lifter much.

Luckily we were able to use the box to our advantage and control the fight. We also saved Riptide when they were stuck on their side. Leaving them stuck that early on would not have made for a very good fight, I think it was for the best!

What did everybody think about it?

Thanks again to our sponsors: Waterway Plastics, Crane Technology, and MaxAmps.com

📸 Tony Woodward Photography (1,2,4)
📸 JCRB Photography (3)

02/12/2022

Come ask us anything! See you at 4pm PT!

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots/comments/sqd50u/team_defender_season_6_ama_saturday_feb_12th_4pm/

AMA with Defender today at 4pm PT over at Reddit.com/r/BattleBots

02/12/2022

Jason and Team Defender will be with you LIVE on Reddit for an AMA tomorrow, February 12th at 4pm PST. Get your questions ready, and we'll see you then!

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots/comments/sqd50u/team_defender_season_6_ama_saturday_feb_12th_4pm/