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These articles relate to the UK television game show Robot Wars, including the upcoming series, pages on robots, presenters, battles, episodes and teams, as well as the Dutch, American and German counterparts. It also contains information on pages deemed relevant in terminology and the Robotic Combat sport.

This wiki only covers Robot Wars and as such does not provide detailed information or images from BattleBots, Robotica, The Robot Fighting League or other such competitions. Robot Wars Live Events are summarised on relevant pages, though live-specific articles are not covered.

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S3 (standing for Sting 3) was a competitor robot that appeared in Series 5 and 6 of Robot Wars as well as the second series of Robot Wars Extreme. S3 was an axlebot with a powerful vertical flywheel, inspired by Hypno-Disc. However, The 1 Law Associates chose to mount it vertically to avoid it being seen as a “Hypno-Disc clone”. The design stage of S3 started in August 2000, and the building of the robot began in Spring 2001, with the robot only being finished the night before the qualifiers. S3 won the Most Original Entry award in Series 5, as well as being nominated for the Most Promising Newcomer award, ultimately losing out to Fluffy. S3 was considerably more successful than its predecessor Sting, reaching the top eight of Series 5, defeating former semi-finalists Plunderbird 5, Mousetrap 2, Stinger, Wild Thing and Spawn Again, before losing to eventual champion Razer. It reached the same stage in Series 6, eventually being defeated by Firestorm 4. (more...) Did you know... ...that Carbide is the only robot to reach three consecutive Grand Final battles? ...that despite being claimed as 280kg on the show, the original Sir Killalot actually weighed around 520kg? ...that Flamethrowers were illegal on Competitor robots, and only the House Robots Sergeant Bash and Growler ever utilised Flamethrowers? ...that the maximum weight of a Heavyweight robot was originally 79.4kg, before increasing to 100kg for Series 5 and to 110kg for Robot Wars: Series 8? ...that in the Series 9 Celebrity Special, the Celebrities drew a concept for a robot which was then built for them to fight? View this template

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