Horizontal crushers are a prominent form of gripping weapon. They are primarily designed to grip both sides of other robots, with the intention of trapping them and allowing the wielder to push and drag them at will as well as crushing and piercing through their sides. The Thermidor machines all utilised this weapon, but they were used more prominently and successfully by Series 7 Semi-Finalist Tough as Nails and double UK Annihilator champion Kan-Opener.