Arena Build Articles

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• Autonomous Obstacle Navigation: What Humanoid Wall Crashes Can—and Cannot—Tell Us — Viral training crashes expose the importance of stopping distance and safety planning, but video alone cannot diagnose a robot's sensors or software.
• The Death of the Ground Game? Why Combat Robot Forks Still Matter — Forks and wedgelets can decide how a weapon meets its opponent, but ground clearance creates compromises in traction, reach, strength and arena mobility.
• Inside the Battlebox: How BattleBots Built the World's Most Dangerous Arena — The Battlebox has contained 250-pound machines with spinning weapons that store the kinetic energy of a car crash. Here is the engineering behind the arena that makes it survivable — for spectators, at least.
• How FPV Race Tracks Are Designed: The Physics and Psychology of a Good Course — A well-designed FPV race course separates good pilots from great ones without being arbitrary. Here is what goes into building a course that produces real competition — from gate placement to altitude changes.