Talk:Robot combat

Subject Branch
MechWarfare resides in, but does not fit neatly in the definition of Robot Combat. This page discusses robot combat as a single type of competition since it was written prior to the advent of new types. The intent is to provide readers with an awareness of an evolving and developing community and event type, and possibly provide the genesis another page in the process. Brant Fetter (talk) 19:14, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not certain that the recent addition of 'Mech Warfare' fits well in this article. I would support a new page on the topic that links to the 'Robot Combat' page, but this is clearly a seaparate branch of robotics without direct relation to the style of robot combat discussed here. Run Amok (talk) 17:22, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * After due consideration, I removed the Mech Warfare sections from the article. It is only indirectly related to classic robot combat and should have its own article linked to the robot combat page. Run Amok (talk) 16:11, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

History Timeline
Solely for the purpose of continuing the timeline, I've added RoboGames to the History section so that readers can understand that Robot Combat is alive and well (as of 2011). Brant Fetter (talk)

Unverified Claims?
The 'unverified claims' tag added to the Robot Combat page says to look to the 'talk' section for guidance, but there is no guidance here. I would appreciate either guidance or the removal of the tag.Run Amok (talk) 23:24, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

OK, nine new references are in place to support the alleged unverified claims. I'm removing the tags based on these new references. If teh support is inadequate, I would appreciate some guidance rather than just the return of the flags, please.Run Amok (talk) 16:56, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

A sport?
Can robot combat be considered a sport?

--Fixuture (talk) 05:03, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I suppose it could be classified as either an e-sport or a motorsport, battlebots.com calls it a 'Robot Fighting Sport' JeffUK (talk) 21:19, 5 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Most people involved consider it a sport. I don't know how much weight that carries, though. ShadowLeopardBeetleweightGuy (talk) 16:31, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Link not broken but content no longer present at the destination
The link present for the following text leads to an orphaned article. Yes I could just remove it but I thought I'd raise it via here instead in case anyone had a better link or disagreed.


 * The sixth season of BattleBots in 2015 failed to explicitly exclude entanglement devices, which resulted in at least one controversial decision.

DNSLOC (talk) 07:54, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

I've removed it. Discussing a single fight is too specific for the general page on the sport. This could be placed on the Battlebots page. LukeSurlt c 11:47, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Hyper Heavyweights and above
Including these weight classes kind of raises questions that aren't really addressed anywhere in the article. I know that Chinkilla is an Ultra Heavyweight which should at least be mentioned in that sub-article, but has there been an existence of robots or competitions that involve the Hyper Heavyweight / Tonweight and Super Tonweight classes? If not I strongly feel it should be noted. 2603:7000:6A00:23F7:74C6:380D:50B2:4FBE (talk) 18:08, 19 May 2023 (UTC)