Star Wars has been a prominent part of pop-culture ever since its introduction as a major motion picture in the 1970’s. Ever since then this empire of science fiction has grown from a large cult ...

And with RC transmitters/receivers available so inexpensively these days, and ebay flooded with little robot parts from China, now seems like a perfect time to start a local robot competition.

Marc Thorpe, who created special effects for Star Wars and Indiana Jones films before creating Robot Wars, has died. He was 77.

Robot battles have drawn kids into novels, TV shows and movies for decades. Now companies are using robot wars to attract a new generation of employees to high-tech manufacturing. On a Saturday ...

Visitors enjoyed high-voltage RC car races and robot wars at the ongoing IIT-Bombay Techfest 2020 in Powai on January 3. The annual science and technology fair is scheduled to go on until January ...

So when I got turned down in the toy presentation, I decided to take the vacuum cleaner off my radio-controlled tank and put weapons on. Then, I decided to stage an event: Robot Wars.

Some people argue that Robot Wars robots are not really robots, because they are radio controlled and not autonomous, operated by computer programs. Those people should study the history of the ...

This unexpected turn out made Thorpe realise that radio controlled robot fighting could be a big thing. The seed of Robot Wars was planted. In 1994 Thorpe created the first incarnation of Robot Wars.