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Team Valkyrie, Ready for Takeoff

Meet the team behind 2020’s Most Destructive Robot on the Discovery Channel’s BattleBots TV show.

Who we are

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We’re a team of nine engineers with a wide range of experience, from industrial robotics, to 3D printing, to consumer products design.

What we do

We’re the team behind Valkyrie, a 250 lb undercutting robot featured on the Discovery Channel’s BattleBots. Valkyrie made her BattleBots debut in 2018.

What we’re up to

Why we do it

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Valkyrie is one of the fiercest spinners on BattleBots, but our impact is greater than that: we inspire children of all backgrounds to get hands-on in STEM fields.

View fullsize All hands in....Valkyrie!!! We had an absolute blast filming the Most Destructive Weekend of @battlebots FaceOffs last weekend! Thank you to @tombstowner , @hypershocktv , Orbitron ( @thehacksmith ), and the @battlebots.destruct.a.thon crew for put
View fullsize The question we keep getting asked: Who is driving Valkyrie for FaceOffs? Introducing Bam (@bam.misc)! Bam has been a designer and engineer on Team Valkyrie for the last 2 years, and she's quickly been gaining experience (and trophies) with her 3lb
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View fullsize Look what finally arrived! Valkyrie has finished her cross-country move from Massachusetts to California and we're getting her all moved in - now it's time to get her prepped for @battlebots Faceoffs! #battlebots #battlebot #engineering #engineer
View fullsize More photos from the @girlscouts Robotics Workshop we ran last week! In addition to building and experimenting with their own bristlebots, the 2nd grade scouts got to ask @bam.misc about her career as an engineer and roboticist. They talked about
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View fullsize How has Valkyrie changed over the past 6 seasons of @battlebots ? Even though Valkyrie has looked similar since 2018, every season we’ve made dozens of internal upgrades to make Valkyrie more powerful, less likely to break, and easier to repai
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View fullsize We're making some special modifications to the new baseplates we just received from @sendcutsend to prep Valkyrie for @battlebots FaceOffs! Hopefully, what this means is we're reducing the likelihood of some very specific failure modes that have pla
View fullsize One of the biggest updates for @battlebots FaceOffs...moving Valkyrie cross-country! Since Leanne is taking the helm again, we spent the weekend packing up shop to send Valkyrie from Massachusetts to California. Valkyrie and all our spares, tools, a
View fullsize The first of the FaceOffs are almost upon us! Who are you rooting for in this weekend's debut of @battlebots Fall Faceoffs? The killer sting of @skorpios_battlebots ? The cat-astrophic chaos of @madcatter_battlebot ? The brute force of @robogymro
View fullsize We got a weird shaped package in the mail this week. We have NO IDEA what it could be! Any guesses? 🤔 #battlebots #robots #robotics #buildseason #engineering #design #engineer #battlebot #robot #valkyrie #engineers #designer #mechanicalengineer #ro

About Valkyrie

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Most Destructive Robot of 2020

Fighting Since 2018

32.4 Million Possible Configurations

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