I Bought a BattleBot From the TV Show

the thumbnail for this video is total click bait you see this crate right here isn't a real crate it's actually only two sides of a crate trying to beat the youtube algorithm here give me a break [Applause] what do you think of my battlebot this is this is terrifying why did you because someone was selling it that's why this is it's so much bigger than on tv they look like little dinky things but this is like a murder robot how much does it weigh 250 pounds how much you weigh like 200. hello little willy i am proud to share with you one of the most important investments i have ever made i bought a battlebot from the tv show i'm an idiot you remember battlebots right the battlebots are coming battlebots the tv show one of the hottest sports around mechanical robots that fight to the death in fact jay leno has his own back exactly right you know the tv show where they have a giant 250-pound robot stuck in an arena and they fight each other to the death [Applause] i've always wanted to build one but it turns out if you're in the right place at the right time you can buy one instead i have been saving up my shekels from selling cat t-shirts at catwarehouse.com they're still for sale and i used that money to buy the robot red devils from the tv show battlebots you would be horrified if you found out how much it cost to build a battlebot i paid nothing i feel like i ripped this man off i got a very good deal i'll give you the exact number i filmed the guy dropping it off i asked him a bunch of questions the guy who built this who owned this and so i i want to show you the robot first so let's do that and then i'll get into i don't know asking him some questions like why the hell would he sell a robot to me why would he sell to me i don't know i wouldn't sell it to me using this robot is not something that i feel comfortable doing alone so i have recruited my friend and failed mythbuster alan pan and caretaker to uh you know i don't know do stuff let's destroy some stuff let's break the crap out of some things let's take a thing and make it two things all of this stuff rotates independently so the instant you pick the treads up the center is going to sag grab these handles right here because that's a safe place to grab where it's not going to pinch you and you still have to be aware of oh wait you know actually wait a second because we're going to need your help too let's just or we could do it the way i did it last time let's just do that here are you sure you don't want to no i got it there we go all right let me get rid of this i've got real good at this all right oh my god holy crap ah that's no good that's not good the drive motor is around 30 power and this flipper actuation is i don't even know it's on like 10 or something all right let's go to the backyard [Music] [Applause] in this experiment we're gonna do bot versus bicycle so everyone put your glasses on it's actually a very special bicycle too this is oh yeah okay this is a very special bicycle because it doesn't have regular wheels it has roombas for wheels yeah the center shut itself off the battery for the center unit is dead this is a mistake we got to get it back into the garage but we're in gravel and the robot battery is dead i charged the battery last night i brought some of the cells down to like 2.5 volts which is not good for lipo batteries all right i plugged it in [Applause] it's a chop stop from hell all right i still think the bike is a chance no way underdog you got this bike oh my god hey [Laughter] i can't believe the bike lost that's like the only time the bike had an advantage is once it was enough through that it could start like pinching on the blade that was so loud this is awful this thing is really hard to control when they're actually in competition there's not a single person driving it i think there's two or three because this control over here causes the main body to pivot this over here opens the claws forwards and backwards there's two sticks it's tank steering [Music] left and right controls the blade moving up and down and then the speed of the blade trying to balance this all at the same time is really hard like really hard why would anybody sell this to me and that's the first question i asked him when he dropped the robot up is why would you sell this to a a normal a normal person b william why would you sell william awesome in this robot are you in debt got fat fat credit card debt why would he sell it to me i don't know let's go back in time and ask i've come up with questions that i think the internet would like to know why would you sell this to william osman because you're the first person that said you'd buy it i'd heard that you at least were a little familiar with battlebots and you've seen what they can do so it's a lot less concerning how many battles has it fought i believe it it spot three at the first tournament and then four or five in the second one how long did it take to build so i worked on this pretty much non-stop for three or four months it was just sleeping and working on this why are you selling it i'm selling the robot because i'm actually moving on from the sport of combat robots so i've been doing it over 20 years it's been a huge part of my life but my family's growing and getting older and it's time for me to focus on them are your children also robots i think everybody's a robot what are your opinions on the movie real steel starring hugh jackman you know real steel um i think it hurts battlebots a little bit and it raises the expectations right and this robot is you don't want to try that hard no no what stuff have you destroyed just for fun we destroyed some kitchen appliances when we were testing the saw we broke a car window and after that we were on purpose it was a complete accident well thank you very much don't shoot your eye out i'll try not to i also try not to cut my arms and legs off okay see that was easier than a car dealership i paid six thousand dollars for red devil i want to clarify how cheap that was if i wanted to build red devil it would cost me twenty thousand dollars just in materials and we could do it maybe in another video i'll do a full teardown but like a single motor is like four hundred dollars the gearbox on each side of the robot is over a thousand dollars like twelve hundred dollars each motor and gearbox setup just to drive around is like 2 000 so total 4 000 i mean it's like he sold it to me for less money than the motors and gearboxes cost brand new oh the battery seems very unhappy oh no we got like what three minutes yeah let's inspect the damage really quick it was a very close fight yeah the this this thing basically could have won by sacrificing itself it's one of those fights bind yourself up into the rub it'd be like you fighting a tractor like the only thing that stopped would be like yeah if you're exactly your bones getting stuck into the gears yeah it struggled a bit with the roomba more than i thought it i mean it would the parts that it did saw through it saw through basically like butter does it have enough power to like crush the oh it's going in oh yeah i can cut into the bumper of the car we gotta put the car into neutral you gotta pop the brake put the key in all i gotta do is start pushing forward to make the whole car go wait do you need someone to steer do you need someone to steal the car [Laughter] pushes the car yeah alan you want to drive [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] see when i go back we're just gonna rip the bumper off we've officially turned a ford taurus into an electric vehicle you know i just got this car smogged the other day and then and then the next day i got a ticket for not displaying my registration stickers because they hadn't sent them to me yet do you need any help backing up your car no we could crank it up to full power right now and see how fast it is all right allen for this next experiment we're gonna see who's faster a human or a battle bot three two one go [Applause] i was really glad that i know now that i really had to i could outrun this thing for my life yeah this isn't meant to be offensive but if you're in a wheelchair you are absolutely out of luck okay here's one neighborhood i am so scared of the name first i've never been looked at with such a stink eye from a 70 year old man in a mercury you wanna drive no do you think he'd be mortified to know what condition it's been currently yeah he'd probably be a little bit offended but they throw these things in in the arena to have like a death battle i want to destroy more stuff but i think we may have damaged the lifting mechanism and the treads are starting to look pretty bad the rubber on some of the pads here i'll just show you the rubber is starting to wear off some of them completely ripped off and they're kind of unthreading so i need to figure out where to buy more of these rubber pads and i need to get into there at some point and figure out why the robot doesn't want to lift itself anymore if there's anything you want me to destroy let me know and support the channel by going to catwarehouse.com and buying some sweet cat shirts you will look hot as heck i guarantee it you already look hot aside what am i talking about

Channel: William Osman

Views: 2,965,944

Keywords: laser cutter, william osman, crappy science, peter sripol, simone giertz, allen pan, colin furze, thehacksmith, michael reeves

Id: DHHF2q6Sz94

Length: 10min 36sec (636 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 16 2020