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Cunning Plan was a featherweight robot that exclusively fought in Series 1 of Robot Wars. Weighing at just under 12kg, it was the lightest robot ever to reach the Grand Final of any series of Robot Wars, which cost it in its Grand Final battle. Cunning Plan was sponsored by the University of Reading and displayed the university shield on the top of the robot. The name Cunning Plan possibly came from the BBC sitcom Blackadder, in which the character Baldrick would often declare that he had a "cunning plan" to resolve a problem in which he and the other characters faced.

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  • Cunning Plan
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  • Cunning Plan was a featherweight robot that exclusively fought in Series 1 of Robot Wars. Weighing at just under 12kg, it was the lightest robot ever to reach the Grand Final of any series of Robot Wars, which cost it in its Grand Final battle. Cunning Plan was sponsored by the University of Reading and displayed the university shield on the top of the robot. The name Cunning Plan possibly came from the BBC sitcom Blackadder, in which the character Baldrick would often declare that he had a "cunning plan" to resolve a problem in which he and the other characters faced.
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robot name
  • Cunning Plan
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Team
Dimensions
  • 10.200000000000001
Power
  • 2(xsd:integer)
Speed
  • 10.0
Series
  • 1(xsd:integer)
  • Series 1-3
team members
  • Oliver Steeples
Caption
  • Cunning Plan
Weight
  • 11.4
Clearance
  • 10.0
Weapons
  • Wedge
Successor
  • Cerberus
Position
  • Record for the quickest Battle in the UK Robot Wars
Predecessor
  • Recyclopse
abstract
  • Cunning Plan was a featherweight robot that exclusively fought in Series 1 of Robot Wars. Weighing at just under 12kg, it was the lightest robot ever to reach the Grand Final of any series of Robot Wars, which cost it in its Grand Final battle. Cunning Plan was sponsored by the University of Reading and displayed the university shield on the top of the robot. The name Cunning Plan possibly came from the BBC sitcom Blackadder, in which the character Baldrick would often declare that he had a "cunning plan" to resolve a problem in which he and the other characters faced. Despite Cunning Plan being retired after Series 1, Oliver Steeples revealed in 2016 that he still owns the robot, and it is fully functional.
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