Robot Wars TV Series

[FastTrax]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Wars_(TV_series)

This beast was my favorite.



Kinda looks like a scorpion. An arachnid I totally despise and fear more then death itself.

 

[jujube]

Oh, I LOVED the American show BattleBots. It was even more violent than the British show. My nephew teaches robotics in a high school in Asia and takes his team to competitions all over the world. They're not quite up to this level, though.

 

[Fyrefox]

Shows like BattleBots may represent the wave of the future. A recurrent theme in science fiction is a time when boxing with human contestants has been outlawed, so robotic combatants are matched. The Twilight Zone once visited this idea in a haunting episode called Steel, and more recently the movie Real Steel with Hugh Jackman expanded the theme...