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Everything you seem to have chose for amour seems to be aimed at protecting humans and stopping bullets for armour. The air muscles come from BigDog. The weapon sounds utterly crazy... a carbon fibre composite, leaf spring crossbow?
Ok, credit for looking into new technologies and materials, I have even considered the non-newtonian armour myself, but none of this will survive in battle. Period.
I would go and look at the current machines. Looked at the fights. studied tactics. Checked out other build diaries.
To put some of the forces into perspective... in this years champs some of the vertical spinners had some much power they could toss 13.6k robots 2.5m into the air. NST is cable of snapping 4mmx10mm Hardox bar. The heads of that weapon weigh about 1kg and spin at around 3000rpm. Its like 60cm wide. It probably hits with around 1000kg of force at full speed.
LS4 bent 2mm of titanium like it was tin foil. Inertial XL can bend 20mm thick steel bolts
Our machine Binky can toss a 17.5kg cooker 1m into the air, make it flip 3 times and still have enough energy to cut through 8mm of steel and cut a 30mm deep, 120mm long gash in solid concrete.
Kevlar may be tough but against a 3.6kg disc with hardened tool steel teeth it will get cut like a hot knife through butter. It holds the wrong properties. Stick with materials like Titanium and hardened steel. Stick with wheels too. There is also the issue that as your walking method doesn't have 2 axis of freedom and there for would not gain the weight advantage. I also suspect that the air sacks would rupture due to the shocks in the arena. Or a single piece of stray metal.
Follow the advice of some of the other roboteers and build a solid rambot to get the basics down. I started with that, I just added a 1.4kg spinning disc. Some start with electric lifters. Heck some don't even need weapons to be champions. Tiny Toon is a perfect example. I am not trying to dissuade you but the sport has been around for to long and each weapon type has become so optimised that no new tech, not even Nasa or military grade stuff, can change the game enough for a design like yours to survive.
Ok, credit for looking into new technologies and materials, I have even considered the non-newtonian armour myself, but none of this will survive in battle. Period.
I would go and look at the current machines. Looked at the fights. studied tactics. Checked out other build diaries.
To put some of the forces into perspective... in this years champs some of the vertical spinners had some much power they could toss 13.6k robots 2.5m into the air. NST is cable of snapping 4mmx10mm Hardox bar. The heads of that weapon weigh about 1kg and spin at around 3000rpm. Its like 60cm wide. It probably hits with around 1000kg of force at full speed.
LS4 bent 2mm of titanium like it was tin foil. Inertial XL can bend 20mm thick steel bolts
Our machine Binky can toss a 17.5kg cooker 1m into the air, make it flip 3 times and still have enough energy to cut through 8mm of steel and cut a 30mm deep, 120mm long gash in solid concrete.
Kevlar may be tough but against a 3.6kg disc with hardened tool steel teeth it will get cut like a hot knife through butter. It holds the wrong properties. Stick with materials like Titanium and hardened steel. Stick with wheels too. There is also the issue that as your walking method doesn't have 2 axis of freedom and there for would not gain the weight advantage. I also suspect that the air sacks would rupture due to the shocks in the arena. Or a single piece of stray metal.
Follow the advice of some of the other roboteers and build a solid rambot to get the basics down. I started with that, I just added a 1.4kg spinning disc. Some start with electric lifters. Heck some don't even need weapons to be champions. Tiny Toon is a perfect example. I am not trying to dissuade you but the sport has been around for to long and each weapon type has become so optimised that no new tech, not even Nasa or military grade stuff, can change the game enough for a design like yours to survive.
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