Welcome to the Bristol Bot Builders website!
We’re a community of robot combat builders in the South West of UK (like Robot Wars & Battlebots on TV!). We host events every month or so where everyone is welcome to come spectate or fight robots. A lot of our events are a relaxed afternoon pub brewery affair and then a few times a year we host competitive full day national competitions, all in Bristol or nearby. On our website you will find:
BBB Upcoming Events:
Beetle Brawl ’25
Saturday 22nd February 11am.
St Michael’s Centre, Bristol.
Fifty 1.5kg beetleweight robots from across Europe will fight it out non stop 11am-6pm, until we have a winner. Includes an inter-university competition.
Roboteers:
Sign ups are full.
Spectators:
Tickets sold out – resale is enabled!
March Ant Social
Sunday 23rd March 1pm.
Zerodegrees, Bristol.
150g antweight robots in a casual setting – expect a singles and doubles tournament.
Roboteers:
Sign ups are now open
Spectators:
Free to spectate.
TBA = To Be Announced. TBC = To Be Confirmed (date may change). See more BBB, UK & EU events here.
More info:
Smaller bots than Robot Wars & Battlebots?
We do events in the ant, beetle & feather weight classes – see below. This is because they’re cheaper and have can have more accessible building techniques to people new to robot combat than the heavyweights you see on TV.
How do I build a Robot?
We’ve made some build guides with UK rules & recommended parts to help get you started.
We run a shop with great parts to help you build a bot.
There’s a lot to take in – come chat in our facebook group or forum or talk to us at one of our events.
About BBB
We’re a community of combat robot builders in South-West UK that run regular Feather, Beetle & Ant events. The group was founded in April 2018 to offer pub robot fighting, continuing the legacy of Bristol university beer & bots events, starting back in December 2014. This quickly grew to multiple events across weightclasses and as of 2023, BBB have ran over thirty robot combat events in its five years!
The BBB Crew: Craig, Gareth & Joe
As BBB, we aim to provide fun robot combat events for anyone in the South West of England area and beyond! Come to one of our events and see what we’re about. We also list all UK & EU Robot Combat events we know of on the UK/EU Events page.