. Two x 800w electric motors give strong pushing power, and the front wedge can get under high ground clearances, but with exposed wheels could the beetle end up needing Help!? (It€™s a Beatles song, it€™s funny, deal with it! ) 
) checks on The Stag, who has been motionless ever since Matilda€™s flywheel thwacked it. Terry Martin looks defeated as Refbot counts it out. 
). The robot is made from aluminium and has roll-bars to stop is getting stranded. The Herbinator is a cross between the Terminator and Herbie: will the Herbinator be back, or will it go bananas?!
) are flown away from Gravity, the electronics and pneumatics now exposed. WJ Dijkstra drives Gravity away from Infusion, one of the wheels particularly damaged and looking bent and buckled, and hits the Pit Release Button, hoping to drive Infusion into the pit. Infusion gives chase, the 2mph difference between the two machines allowing the robot from Down Under to slowly catch up with its prey. Gravity quickly turns around, getting the flipper facing Infusion, and charges at the spinning machine. The flipper glides underneath the ground clearance of Infusion, and a mighty flip from Gravity sends Aaron Knight€™s robot soaring into the air, before crashing back down onto the arena floor, narrowly missing the open pit as it bounces down, before coming to a stop near Dead Metal€™s CPZ. Before Infusion (who is now the right-way-up) can start spinning up, Dead Metal€™s claws grab hold of Infusion, allowing the circular saw to come into play and attempt to slice through the 6mm Hardox wedge - but to no avail. The House Robot releases Infusion, who without a moment€™s hesitation begins to get the body spinning, and goes on the hunt for Gravity, who has been cautious in attacking since the initial damage it received. Aaron drives Infusion towards Gravity, with WJ doing the same. Both robots collide in the middle of the arena, Gravity unable to get under the Hardox wedge and ends up on top of Infusion - the tires mere centimetres away from the spinning body of Infusion. Aaron carefully turns Infusion around until it is facing the arena pit, his intention to get the Dutch machine down and out of the fight, but before he can do so, WJ Dijkstra reverses Gravity off the wedge, before coming in on another charge. Once again, Gravity cannot get under the front wedge of Infusion, whose spinning body is nothing but a mere blur now. Aaron wiggles the controls, and Infusion tries again to get Gravity nearer the pit. The tires on Gravity are just scraping the front wedge, as the Dutch machine escapes from a potential pitting. Gravity goes in for one more slam, hoping that third time lucky will work, the flipper longing to cause the same carnage it did in its Round One melee. However, Aaron second-guessed what WJ Dijkstra was about to do, and at the last minute moved out of the way just enough for the whole of the 99kgs of Gravity to go flipper first into the spinning body. Before you can say Oh Crikey!, Gravity is send spinning away towards the arena wall, the flipper ripped clean off and an abundance of C02 being spewed out of the machine. The right wheel is completely destroyed, and the chassis is bent and buckled beyond recognition.
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