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Add a blade to each arm and youвЂ™ve got not only an offensive weapon, but an effective rotating shield against most other robot attacks. This efficiency stemmed from the make-up of SoWвЂ™s weapon, a spinning apparatus with three arms that extend from the top of the bot down towards the ground. What Clint and his dad built was the вЂњSon of Whyachi,вЂќ a machine with a fairly simple but brutally efficient design. The rules are fairly simple: the last bot moving wins.Д¬lintвЂ™s family got started вЂњin 2001 when we were watching it on TV, and my dad, being the competitive mechanical genius that he is, decided that he could build something that would revolutionize the BattleBots world,вЂќ according to Clint.

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For the uninitiated, BattleBots is a competition in which two teams build a robot, equip it with some form of lethal weapon, and then let those robots loose in the вЂњbattle box,вЂќ which is essentially a 30-foot-by-30-foot arena вЂ“ sometimes full of rotating saws and pneumatic hammers вЂ“ to beat the mechanical snot out of one another. So you can imagine my glee when I heard about Clint Ewert, a Stout engineering, technology, and mechanical design major who has more BattleBots titles and trophies than I have fingers. The only thing better than robots? Fighting robots. I love robots of all shapes, sizes, makes, and models, ranging from the monstrous MechaGodzilla right down to the nebulous nanite.

Like most of us with a Y chromosome, I possess an inherent fondness for robots.

Stout engineering student Clint Ewert is builds champion BattleBots.

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