BattleBots S6E4 Recap with HotLeafJuice captain and SawBlaze team member Lucy Du!

This week on the podcast, we’re interviewing HotLeafJuice captain and SawBlaze team member Lucy Du! Lucy is a mechanical engineer who got her bachelors and masters degrees at MIT, and went to work for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory before returning to MIT to earn her PhD. Her research currently focuses on the field of Biomechatronics, which studies ways to merge people with machines.

 

Combat robotics fans know Lucy for HotLeafJuice, a 12-pound undercutter that she built last year and dominated with at Norwalk Havoc, taking home two first-place finishes in qualifiers before winning the Golden Brett and $12-thousand dollars cash at the Norwalk Havoc Finals in December. She’s competed on every season of BattleBots to date — starting with the legendary Team JACD in 2015, and helping launch Team SawBlaze the following year

This week’s interview is brought to you by MaxAmps and their new line of “Max Combat” batteries. These battle-ready batteries are available for 1-, 3-, 12-, and 30-pound bots and feature a custom wrap with your team’s logo, internal hard skins for extra protection, and puncture resistant wire sleeves. Check them out at maxamps.com

 

This week’s combat robotics news:

• Blacksmith interviewed on Behind the Battle: facebook.com/hexbug/posts/10158346459006666 
• Blade uses HiJinx’s lathe: facebook.com/TeamORBY/posts/891840118150469 
• Blade’s recap of their Skorpios fight: facebook.com/TeamORBY/posts/891598581507956 
• Glitch posts a good meme: facebook.com/glitch.battlebots/posts/150209827378472 
• Glitch’s recap of their Ghost Raptor fight: facebook.com/glitch.battlebots/posts/149779227421532 
• HUGE launches a papercraft version of their bot (!): facebook.com/BattleBotsHuge/posts/972232626715944 
• HyperShock goes deep on brushless motors: facebook.com/HyperShockTV/photos/a.1626817397536137/3039740732910456 
• Jackpot vs. Malice commemorative merch: facebook.com/JackPotBattleBots/posts/432246211931742 
• Kraken’s behind-the-scenes photos at Robot Ruckus: facebook.com/KrakenBattleBot/posts/347812870678330 
• Kraken launches “How to Build a Kraken” series: facebook.com/KrakenBattleBot/posts/344317161027901 
• MadCatter auctioning off its top plate from SawBlaze main event: facebook.com/badkittyrobots/posts/440500607774065 
• MadCatter recap of SawBlaze main event: facebook.com/badkittyrobots/posts/440464444444348 
• Malice auctioning off its back panel: facebook.com/malicebattlebot/posts/492118585650349 
• Malice recap of Jackpot fight: facebook.com/malicebattlebot/posts/491451575717050 
• Overhaul addresses odd choice to run forks in Ribbot fight: facebook.com/EqualsZeroRobotics/posts/4800471786656350 
• P1 selling battle-damaged parts online: facebook.com/AberrantRobotics/posts/1133972284101791 
• SawBlaze recap of MadCatter main event: facebook.com/SawBlazeBattlebots/posts/333996855400402 
• Skorpios addresses Blade fight: facebook.com/SkorpiosBattleBot/posts/328608599275102 
• Craig Danby unveils new Apex: facebook.com/teamdanby/posts/602053877814479 
• Tombstone auctioning off battle-damaged parts: facebook.com/TombstoneBot/posts/342487237882815 
• Whiplash auctioning off battle-damaged parts: facebook.com/FastElectricRobots/posts/339770334821782 
• Team Whyachi behind-the-scenes hype video: facebook.com/Whyachi/posts/5159513480728092 

 

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