Carbide

Carbide has a powerful 25kg, 85cm long horizontal bar spinner made from plate steel normally used as armour on military tanks

Fact title	Fact data
Weapon	Spinning Blade
Weight	110kg
Defence	4.5mm military grade steel / 8mm aerospace grade aluminium
Top Speed	12 mph
Drive System	2 x 1.5 horse-power electric motors
Biggest Weakness	Carbide has never been tested in battle as the team have considered it too dangerous.

Name: David Mould (partner to Cheryl, 27)
Role: Captain, driver and builder, co-designer
Occupation: Robotics Engineer for Cadburys

At its maximum speed, the impact of a hit from Carbide’s blade has 60 times more energy than a sniper bullet

Name: Sam Smith (friend, 33)
Role: Weapons operator, builder and co-designer
Occupation: Aerospace Engineer for Rolls Royce

Name: Sheryl Prior (partner to David, 26)
Role: Moral support and tea making
Occupation: Accountant

Team mates David and Sam are both very experienced amateur fighting robot builders – who until now have always competed on opposing robot teams. Sam competed on the previous series of Robot Wars with his robot Tiberious, Dave was a previous UK champion of the live events with his Robot "Turbulence" and is known as one of the best drivers in Robot Wars.