Razer as it appeared in series 6 ofRobot Wars, featuring a piercing arm and wedge
is a
combat robot that competes on the British television series
Robot Wars. It was constructed by Simon Scott and Ian Lewis from
Bournemouth; the team later expanded to include webmaster Vincent Blood. Razer was designed and constructed in 1998 to participate in the second series of
Robot Wars, but subsequent modifications and improvements enabled it to remain competitive until its retirement after the second series of
Robot Wars Extreme. Despite gaining a reputation for being unreliable, it was champion of the fifth series of
Robot Wars, runner-up in the sixth, and won the first two
Robot Wars World Championships.
Razer's weapon is a piercing arm which exerts approximately three tonnes of pressure per square inch (465 kg/cm
2, 45.6 MPa) at its tip. The arm was designed to pierce opponents' armour plating and break their internal components, rendering them impaired or immobile. This weapon was inspired by the principle of the
fly press—a piece of machinery used to bend and pierce metal—and maximises damage through the use of
hydraulics. The arm is also an integral element of Razer's winged self-righting mechanism, which rolls the robot back onto its wheels if inverted. In later series of
Robot Wars, an interchangeable hook was attached to the arm to lift robots immune from being pierced. The popularity of crushing and piercing weaponry in robot combat events is attributed to Razer, which inspired many imitations. (
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