{"id":9571,"date":"2007-05-24T01:28:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T01:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9571"},"modified":"2007-05-24T01:28:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T01:28:06","slug":"combots-vs-the-battle-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9571","title":{"rendered":"Combots vs. The Battle Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/combots.jpg\">One of the many people I&#8217;m bummed I didn&#8217;t get a chance to meet was Simone of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suicidebots.com\/\" target=\"new\">Suicide Bots<\/a>\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/robogames.net\/\" target=\"new\">Combots<\/a> and the other folks from Combots. I saw them for the two days prior to the event working their asses off getting the Arena built. During the Faire, it was so crowded, you couldn&#8217;t get near the place. It *sounded* like fun. <\/p>\n<p> One of the combat robot folks told me there&#8217;s quite the arms race going on between the robots and the lethality of their weapons and the integrity of the robot arena. This is driven home in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suicidebots.com\/2007\/05\/23\/last-rites-vs-brutality-vs-the-arena\/\" target=\"new\">the footage<\/a> of the appropriately-named Last Rites shearing a 55-pound steel blade off of Brutality and flinging it across the Arena, punching a hole in one of the polycarbonate panels. Ouch. Maybe I *didn&#8217;t* want to get that close to the action. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many people I&#8217;m bummed I didn&#8217;t get a chance to meet was Simone of Suicide Bots\/ Combots and the other folks from Combots. I saw them for the two days prior to the event working their asses off getting the Arena built. During the Faire, it was so crowded, you couldn&#8217;t get &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9571\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Combots vs. The Battle Box&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}