About the Book
This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Robots with Retracting Spears, 101, Aggrobot, Alien Destructor, Ansgar, Atomic, Axios, Brimhur, Broot, Cassius, Cobra, Destruct-A-Bubble, Fat Boy Tin, Firestorm, Flensburger Power, Hefty, Immortalis, Kater Killer, Kick Robut, Lambsy, Leighbot, Loco, More Panda Monium, Mr Punch, Nemesis, Pain, Prizephita, Ruf Ruf Dougal, Sgt. Meikle, Shear Khan, Spawn of Scutter, Spike, Sub-Version, Technophobic, Techno Trousers, Terrorpin, The Grim Reaper, Tornado, Alien Destructor, Big Brother, Death Trak, Demolition Demon, Detonator, Elvis, IDO, Ivanhoe, Mr Nasty, ORAC, Phoenix, Rottweiler, Saw Point, Shapeshifter, Sir Chromalot, Slippery Strana, Snookums, Spears, Spikasaurus, Sub-Version, T.R.A.C.I.E., Texas Tornado, The Witch, Tridentate. Excerpt: 101 was a fast and violent tracked robot with a zero ground clearance and turning circle that competed in the third, fourth and fifth series of Robot Wars. It received its name because it cost the team 1.01 to put together, due to the majority of its parts already being in the team's possession or scrounged. Another possible influence for the name was Room 101 from the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, as mentioned by Craig Charles after its Vengeance battle. 101's best performance came in Series 3, where it lost in the second round of the Semi-Finals to Hypno-Disc on a very tight judges' decision. It was also the winner of the first Tag Team Terror Competition with King B3. Its main weapon was a small spike that would automatically fire at 200mph when an opponent was in range ran of an EPCS (Extraperceptive Central System), capable of punching through inch steel plate, and at the end of Series 4 guiding wedges, similar to Hydra's flanges, were added to the front of the machine and the robot was made from HE30 alloy, later upgraded to aircraft-grade aluminium. 101 was one of the few robot to use caterpillar tracks, and was the be...
