Donald Hutson is a veteran BattleBots competitor who also featured as a judge during the 2004 BattleBots IQ event. Best known as captain of the of Mutant Robots team, he also mentored UCSD Triton Robotix and Triton during the 2009 Collegiate Championship. On top of judging, Hutson lent himself as part of the safety team for the high school competition.
In a career spanning over 25 years, Donald Hutson has won a total of six Giant Nuts, including several for best in show categories. This makes him one of the most decorated individual competitors in BattleBots history with robots including but not limited to Tazbot, Diesector, Root Canal, Easty Beast, the exhibition walker Gear Crow and his current build, Lock-Jaw.
In 2022, Hutson began building a brand new, revised version of Tazbot for the live show, BattleBots: Destruct-A-Thon. The ShowBot has since competed in the majority of live shows, where it typically fights Kraken.
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Away from the show, Donald Hutson has mentored FIRST Robotics Team 1572 at Kearney High School since 2005. He currently works as a support engineer for the San Diego-based company Qualcomm.
In 2018, Hutson co-founded the startup company Modal Ai Inc. alongside a Qualcomm work colleague.
