Apollo

Apollo won the first series of the Robot Wars revival (Series 8, 2016), beating the spinner Carbide in the Grand Final. The white-and-black robot of brothers Dave Young, the driver, and Alan Young is a pneumatic flipper of the ‘launcher’ type that hurls opponents into the air, with an electric two-wheel drive for agility.

Verified sources give neither weight nor dimensions; the robot fought in the revival’s heavyweight class, which corresponds to 110 kg in the FRA table. The pneumatic pressure quoted in fan wikis (1,000 psi) and the team line-up come only from summaries of blocked pages, so the figure is omitted and the names should be treated as uncertain. Since the show ended in 2018 Apollo has not competed; status retired.

The photograph from the 2017 filming is by LukeSurl under CC BY-SA 4.0. Its 2016 victory briefly reversed the trend towards rotating weapons in arena robot combat; Carbide took revenge a year later, before another flipper, Eruption, won the final series in 2017. The team owns a single unit.