Now · months 0–6
Beetleweight
3 lb
RAMCHUCK as you see it. Two NHRL events. Every match filmed. Goal: finish, learn, build a record.
A combat robot built around one idea: channelled rage.
RAMCHUCK is an Aries-themed beetleweight bot built by a five-person family team in North Carolina. The weapon is a ram-scoop lifter with curled horn rails. The plan is three weight classes and 36 months from this workbench to a televised arena.
A family build Chuck · Jack · Uncle John · Dad · Joe
The Bot
Wedge in front. Horns on the flanks. Lifter under the hood.
The design discipline is simple and unforgiving: every gram has to earn its place. RAMCHUCK does three things and refuses to do anything else. The hardened titanium scoop slides under the opponent. The four-bar lifter throws them. The curled ram-horn side rails — printed and reinforced — deflect spinners on the way in and right the bot if it lands inverted.
No flame. No pneumatics. No fragile high-RPM weapon to throw a bearing in the third match. The whole architecture is a bet on reliability and finesse against a field that mostly bets on raw weapon energy.
- Class
- Beetleweight, 3 lb / 1.36 kg
- Footprint
- ~5.5″ × 6″ × 2″
- Weapon
- Active ram-scoop lifter, four-bar linkage
- Drive
- 2WD brushless, tuned 8–10 mph
- Frame
- Printed PC/PETG, titanium scoop facing
- Srimech
- Integrated horn rail, passive + active
- Palette
- Ice blue, matte white, gunmetal
- First arena
- NHRL Beetleweight
The Lineup
Five people, one bot, three generations deep.
A real team, not a sponsor list. Built like a family because it is one.
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01ChuckCaptain · DriverNames the bot. Owns the aesthetic. On the sticks for every match.
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02JackCo-pilot · WeaponChuck's brother. On the weapon controls in the arena. Learning the engineering between matches.
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03Uncle JohnLead engineerCivil engineer. Vets the frame, the load paths, the weight budget. The reason the bot won't fold.
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04DadPit crew leadBetween-match repairs, tool discipline, event logistics. Adult supervision on the bench.
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05JoeProject leadSurgeon by day. Owns the long arc: 3 lb to 30 lb to 250 lb to BattleBots.
The Plan
Three weights. Thirty-six months. One destination.
Every credible BattleBots team came up through smaller classes first. We are doing the climb on purpose, in public, with the cameras on from day one.
Months 6–18
Featherweight
30 lb
Scale the design language. Real CNC parts. First sponsors. Where future heavyweight teams build their name.
Months 18–36 · Goal
Heavyweight
250 lb
Submit the BattleBots application with eighteen months of team footage. Get accepted. Build the heavyweight. Fight on television.
A note from the team —
We are a five-person family team in North Carolina building a combat robot from the workbench up. RAMCHUCK is the first bot in a three-year project that ends on a televised BattleBots arena. We are not asking for money first. We are asking for the small things that move a build forward — discounted parts, free filament, an afternoon of CNC time, a banner on the pit cart in trade.
What we offer in return is straightforward: logo placement on the bot, named acknowledgement in every event recap, and a build documented on video from the first 3D print to the last arena match. By the time the heavyweight version of this robot lights up on a Discovery broadcast, the partners who helped at three pounds will have their names on the cart that rolls into the Las Vegas pit.
If any of that is interesting, the line is above.
— Joe, Uncle John, Dad, Jack, and Chuck, team captain
Follow the build
From first 3D print to first arena match.
Build logs, event dates, the occasional sparks-flying photo. We don't write often. We only write when something real happens.