This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with longtime combat robotics builder John Mladenik, captain of Gigabyte and Cobalt on S6 of BattleBots. John and his team have essentially perfected the heavyweight shell spinner design, sending Gigabyte to a 13-10 record on the reboot of BattleBots, and fielding a very similar robot, Megabyte, on King of Bots. We’re chatting with John following the season premiere of BattleBots Champions, where Gigabyte was the episode’s final mini boss.

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