Videos: Humanoid Robot Rumble And Combots Final Match At RoboGames 2011

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Monday, April 18th, 2011

The RoboGames 2011 in San Francisco ended yesterday, and thanks to robot otaku blog Robots Dreams from Tokyo, we can show you two of the most interesting matches that were held during the event on video.

This video shows a robot rumble, basically a group of humanoids trying to knock each other out of the ring until only one is left standing. The rumble was held after the competition was over (which means the owners didn’t have to worry about damaged parts and such):

In this video, you can see the final (and pretty awesome) match of the Combots competition, Sewer Snake vs. Last Rites: