Profile licensed Robot Wars to a UK production company. The Thorpe partnership broke up in 1997, starting many years of legal wrangling between Thorpe and Profile Records (the former Sm:)e Communications). Robot Wars had financial backing from Sm:)e communications, a New York record company.

History Early competitions īattleBots is an offshoot of the original Robot Wars tournaments, the brainchild of Marc Thorpe. A second spin-off premiered on August 5, 2022, under the name BattleBots: Champions. The first spin-off, BattleBots: Bounty Hunters, premiered on Januon Discovery+. Two spin-off competitions have debuted on Discovery+. A ninth season of BattleBots premiered on Discovery Channel on June 7, 2019, the tenth season premiered on December 3, 2020, the eleventh season on January 6, 2022, and the twelfth season on January 5, 2023. In February 2018, Discovery Channel and Science picked up the show for an eighth season, which premiered on May 11, 2018. Additionally, ABC renewed BattleBots for a seventh season, which premiered on June 23, 2016. While small untelevised competitions continued to be run under the BattleBots name, the show was on hiatus until it was revived on ABC in 2015.Ī six-episode revival series premiered on ABC on June 21, 2015, to generally favorable reviews and ratings. Comedy Central's first season premiered on August 23, 2000, and its fifth and last season ended on December 21, 2002. For five seasons, BattleBots aired on the American Comedy Central and was hosted by Bil Dwyer, Sean Salisbury, and Tim Green. The first official BattleBots event was hosted in Long Beach in August 1999, while a second event in Las Vegas was used to pitch the competition to television networks. Legally barred from the name 'Robot Wars', American robot combat aficionados created a new company, BattleBots, under the ownership of Greg Munson and Trey Roski. The same competitions inspired the British TV program Robot Wars, which acquired the name in 1995. The show is an adaptation of the American Robot Wars competitions hosted in the mid–late 1990s by Marc Thorpe, in which competitors design and operate remote-controlled armed and armored machines designed to fight in an arena combat elimination tournament.

BattleBots (logo: Bꓭ) is an American robot combat television series and company.

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