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 roughly once a month where all are welcome to come spectate or fight robots. Most of our events are a relaxed afternoon pub brewery affair, but a few times a year we host competitive full day national competitions, all in Bristol or nearby. Keep up to date by subscribing to our newsletter. On our website you will find:
BBB Upcoming Events:
New Blood Beetles
Saturday 24th May 1pm.
LHG Taproom, Bristol.
1.5kg beetles with an emphasis on new bots and new builders outdoors (hopefully) in the sun at LHG Taproom.
Roboteers: Sign ups are full.
Next Beetle event in July!
Spectators:
Free to spectate.
June Ant Social
Saturday 21st June1pm.
Wiper & True Taproom, Bristol.
150g ‘antweight’ robots fight it out under a marquee at this lovely taproom: both full combat 1v1 fights and doubles with PLANTS (plastic spinners)
Roboteers:
Sign ups open now!
Spectators:
Free to spectate.
TBA = To Be Announced. TBC = To Be Confirmed (date may change). See more BBB events, UK & EU events.
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
The BBB Crew: Craig, Gareth & Joe.
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 2025, BBB have ran over fifty robot combat events!
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.