NH and MA Locals Win 'March Of The Bots' Competition

DERRY, NH — Derry local Tim Herbert and Cambridge's Jamison Go had quite a weekend!

Herbert won a top prize in the National Havoc Robot League's "March of the Bots" Tournament, a live-streamed event featuring over 100 of the world’s top combat robot builders battling head-to-head with a lineup of 30lb, 12lb and 3lb bots.

Herbert, an Embedded Systems and Robotics Consultant and Head of Brandeis Automation Lab for Brandeis University, was crowned champion of the 3-pound weight class for the stellar performance of his robot, Chubby Unicorn.

Jamison Go of Cambridge—a mechanical engineer at MIT known for helping build the James Webb telescope—and his robot MegatRON took the top prize in the 30-pound weight class, and his robot Saiko! won the 12-pound weight class. Go is also a competitor on Discovery’s “Battle Bots” and an NHRL World Champion.

The National Havoc Robot League is the largest robot combat league in the world, hosting a series of tournaments throughout each year that culminates in the World Championships.

Each tournament boasts hundreds of robots and builders and fans from all over the world as competitors attempt to claim the coveted Golden Dumpster.