Cobalt

Cobalt's Discovery Season 4 appearance.

Cobalt is a robot built by Team Carbide from the United Kingdom, which competed in the second season of ABC's BattleBots reboot. It was an invertible, two-wheel drive robot armed with a powerful asymmetrical bar spinner, which bore a close resemblance to a bladed axe head. Cobalt performed well in its debut season, reaching the round of 32.

For Season 4, Cobalt received a completely new build, sporting a black and green color scheme like Carbide's, and a design similar to the current Chinese champion Tungsten, with the steep wedge design with a vertical flywheel, only instead of one tooth, it's more of a saw-like disc. Unlike Tungsten, it doesn't have the electric self-righting axe.

The robot was co-built by Dave Moulds and Sam Smith; the former also joined Team Robo Challenge for their ABC Season 1 entry with Beta. Smith was the original builder of Tiberius, which competed in Series 4-7 of Robot Wars and Series 2 of Robot Wars Extreme, later entering ABC Season 2 as Photon Storm. For ABC Season 2, Moulds and Smith were joined by Sheryl Prior and James Cooper.

Around the same time that Team Carbide developed Cobalt for BattleBots, the same team also made a similar-looking heavyweight for Series 8, 9, and 10 of Robot Wars, Carbide. Carbide achieved significant success, winning Series 9 outright and finishing runner-up in its remaining appearances. Both Cobalt and Carbide were largely similar in shape and design, with Carbide using a symmetrical bar spinner, different armor and internals, and a black and green color scheme instead of Cobalt's white, blue and red.

Cobalt did not return for the 2018 season of Discovery's BattleBots reboot, due to filming clashes with the Chinese robot combat show This is Fighting Robots, which Team Carbide won with a new machine, Tungsten.

Robot History

ABC Season 2

Cobalt's Season 2 appearance.

Cobalt fighting Overhaul.

Cobalt's first ever match in BattleBots was against Overhaul. In the beginning of the match, Cobalt started spinning its blade and Overhaul moved toward the drivers booth. Overhaul was able to consistently deflect most of Cobalt’s hits and Cobalt started smoking. Despite this, Cobalt's blade was still moving and gave Overhaul one more hit. This hit disabled Cobalt's spinning blade and Overhaul lost drive on one side. Cobalt was able to escape and Overhaul was now being counted out. Although the motor was still spinning the blade, the team wouldn't trust it for another fight. So they decided to modify the chassis to take a bigger motor they could get delivered overnight. In spite of this, Cobalt won the match by KO at 1:26 and advanced to the round of 32 with its No.14 seeding, where it faced the No.19 seed Bombshell.

Cobalt's wheels being shredded by Bombshell.

The match started out fairly evenly as Cobalt approached Bombshell while facing backwards and withstood the first attack. However, after a few more attacks, one of Cobalt's tires was torn off, leaving the robot to vibrate a bit as it moved around. A few seconds later, Cobalt's remaining tire was torn off, leaving it unable to move. Cobalt was counted out and Bombshell won by KO at 1:45. This meant that Cobalt was eliminated from the tournament.

Wins/Losses

• Wins: 1
• Losses: 1

Competition	Wins	Losses
ABC Season 2	Overhaul	Bombshell
Discovery Season 4	TBA	TBA

Faruq Tauheed Introductions

"Roses are red, this bot is blue. Poems are dumb. Now, you're gonna die. It's COBALT!"

"Made in the UK, pound for pound, it's the deadliest bot in the 'Box. It's the banger, you're the mash. It's COBALT!"

See Also

• Carbide (Robot Wars)
• Tungsten (King of Bots/This is Fighting Robots)