Currently, the IUPUI robotics team has two robots. Paydar is a super heavyweight that has competed in Battlebots Season 5.0. Due to our experience at Battlebots, we decided we needed a sparring partner to develop driving skills, and Targetbot was born.

Paydar is an attempt to maximize speed and maneuverability for robotic combat. Targetbot is, well, Targetbot is looking forward to a life of abuse. Paydar was first designed over the course of a semester by a 13-student senior design group, and then manu-factured over a semester
with the help of several sponsors with the latest manufacturing technology. Targetbot was designed by two guys on the back of a pizza box and then manufactured over a couple of weekends, occasionally using a ruler (as a paper weight, or to prop things up).

This fall another senior design team is at work designing a third robot for the lightweight or middleweight class. We hope to bring Paydar and our unnamed third robot to competition this spring. Targetbot will stay home.