With North Carolina House lawmakers looking to add a policy provision into the budget recognizing competitive robotics programs as interscholastic athletic activities regulated by the State Board of Education, students of f(x) Robotics at Smithfield Selma Senior High School have known the importance of robotics and STEM education for many years. Team Danby’s robot, Slammo, hopes to advance into final rounds of competition this season, but fans will not know the results till the show airs later this year.
He also talked to the team about competition strategy, and shared some personal insights competing against popular teams such as Witch Doctor, Huge and End Game. Andrea Gellatly, Mike Gellatly, Paul Grata, Christian Chiriboga, Steven Sharp, Katheryn Sharp, Jennifer Villa, Rick Pease.
Danby showed the high school team one of his early battle robots, talked robot build, competition strategy and took a myriad of questions.ĭanby, a mechanical design engineer with a focus in robotics, talked to the team about his design and builds over nearly three decades in competitive robotics. Witch Doctor featured a vertical disc with front wedges which could be replaced with a large steel plow to combat spinners. It was built by Busted Nuts Robotics, who created the original middleweight Witch Doctor and rebranded with a self-titled team name. Craig Danby, a well-known Discovery Channel Battlebot’s competitor, stopped by a meeting for FIRST Robotics Competition Team 6004 f(x) Robotics on Aug. Witch Doctor is a robot which competed in every season of the BattleBots reboot. While Danby will start filming a new Battlebots season early next week, members of f(x) Robotics are in off-season with their competition season starting in January 2022. Nearly two dozen students from across Johnston County’s public, charter, private and homeschool communities make up the f(x) Robotics team. Danby visited the team in mid-August prior to leaving for Las Vegas to film a new season of Battlebots.Ĭraig Danby, a premier competitor on Discovery Channel’s Battlebots, visited a Johnston County high school robotics team on August 18th prior to leaving for Las Vegas to film the new season of the popular show.ĭanby talked with students from FIRST Robotics Competition Team 6004 hosted at Smithfield Selma Senior High School. Students from FIRST Robotics Competition Team 6004 f(x) Robotics hosted at Smithfield Selma Senior High School check out one of Craig Danby’s original Battlebots, Foxic.