A team of robot builders from Seattle is competing in upcoming episodes of “BattleBots: Bounty Hunters,” led by an industrial designer who works for Microsoft.
Emmanuel Carrillo told The Seattle Times that he watched the robot-fighting series while growing up and says that the competitive sport plays well off his industrial design work and engineering skills.
Carrillo and Team Food Fight compete with a menacing looking green and white machine called Big Dill. The lifter bot is called a mash up of various robots that Carrillo has worked on over the years. Images on the team’s Instagram feed show Big Dill and other robots under construction.
The Times reported that Carrillo has appeared on “BattleBots” previously as a driver or in the pit crew, but this is his first time competing as team captain.
“Everybody wants to build a high-kinetic-energy weapon that really destroys and we’re a control bot,” Carillo told The Times. “We’re more strategy. We’re not gonna break you apart. We’re gonna be able to spar a little more tactically with our approach.”
The “BattleBots: Bounty Hunters” episodes featuring Big Dill start streaming on discovery+ on March 18.
