Not to be confused with Whambulance, a middleweight entry from the first BattleBots IQ competition.
Bambulance was a heavyweight robot built by Team LOGICOM for entry into the 2004 BattleBots-sanctioned NPC Charity Open. It was an invertible, four-wheel drive machine with a box-shaped chassis and a large Urethane scoop surrounding its front and sides.[1] The top and bottom of the robot also utilized urethane armor sections, making Bambulance one of the few competitors to use this material during this time.
Though it attended the NPC Charity Open, Bambulance did not compete in the heavyweight bracket or the multiclass Rumble held at the event's conclusion. Beyond BattleBots, it also attended a variety of other robot combat events across the United States. In its debut appearance at the July 2003 NC Robot Street Fight, it won the 220lb heavyweight tournament after defeating Megabyte in the final.[2] Bambulance's most recent appearance was at the Battles at Maker Faire Orlando event in November 2018.[3]
Bambulance's original Robot Wars incarnation Spin Doctor
Bambulance was a conversion of Spin Doctor, Team LOGICOM's second entry for Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors and Nickelodeon Robot Wars alongside The Revolutionist. While mostly identical to its later incarnation, Spin Doctor differed in being equipped with a 29lb, 3,000rpm spinning disk, with its wheels being completely exposed. Though only reaching the second round of the main US Championship in Extreme Warriors Season 2 - where it was defeated by defending champion Panzer Mk 4 - it and The Revolutionist would go on to finish runner-up in the Nickelodeon International Tag Team event. Though Spin Doctor's disk was later removed, its mount remained part of Bambulance's main chassis following its conversion.
Bambulance in May 2021
In May 2021, Team LOGICOM sold the now over twenty-year old Bambulance to new owner Jason Rogers, who intends to restore the robot to fighting form for the Orlando Maker Faire competition.