Team Food Fight, led by Emmanuel Carrillo, second from left, and his “BattleBots: Bounty Hunters” Big Dill machine. (Photo from BattleBots.com)
A team of Seattle robot builders is competing in the next episodes of “BattleBots: Bounty Hunters,” directed by an industrial designer who works for Microsoft.
Emmanuel Carrillo told The Seattle Times that he watched the robot fight series growing up and says the competitive sport plays well with his industrial design work and engineering skills.
Carrillo and Team Food Fight compete with a menacing looking green and white machine named Big Dill. The lifting bot is called a combination of several robots that Carrillo has worked on over the years. Images on the team’s Instagram feed show Big Dill and other robots under construction.
The Times reported that Carrillo has appeared on “BattleBots” previously as a driver or on the pit crew, but this is the first time he has competed as a team captain.
“Everybody wants to build a high kinetic energy weapon that really destroys and we are a control robot,” Carillo told The Times. “We are more strategic. We are not going to break you. We will be able to train a little more tactically with our approach.
Episodes of “BattleBots: Bounty Hunters” featuring Big Dill will begin airing on discovery + on March 18.
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