Aftershock

Aftershock is a brand-new robot from the team who got to last year’s final with Shockwave. The power of their weapon is close to that of Matilda’s spinning blade and the angled armour will deflect heavy spinners like Carbide.

Fact title	Fact data
Weapon	Vertical spinner
Weight	110kg
Defence	The majority of the chassis is 6mm hardened steel with 15mm hardened steel bulkheads, the top panels will be 12mm polycarbonate
Top Speed	13mph
Drive System	2 x brushed motors
Biggest Weakness	Flippers could be an issue and could throw Aftershock out of the arena, Aftershock has no self-righting mechanism and Matilda’s spinner could be a threat

Name: Will Thomas (24)
Role: Captain, Head Designer and Driver
Occupation: Design Technology Teacher

The power of their weapon is close to that of Matilda’s spinning blade

Name: Ian Thomas (53)
Role: Main Engineer
Occupation: Global Product Manager

Aftershock has evolved through ten years of design trial and error. Will has created versions of the design for all other robot fighting weights. The team reached the series one final with Shockwave, only to be defeated by Carbide – but they were never immobilised.