So people who are good at that are good team members,” Goodridge said. “Our team motto is: We just show up and build things. She brought that experience to the team early on, as well. “I’d always loved watching robots fight each other, just the weird what-ifs of what happens if a giant flipper smacks into a spinning blade of death.”Īnna Goodridge worked in The Makerspace by Stanley Black & Decker at the time and had experience building race cars. “I put a chainsaw on top of a Roomba, which was a terrible robot, but so much fun so it grew from there,” Farrell said. His first experience building a robot sparked a motivation to learn more, despite a first attempt that was less than calculated.
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He built a few small robots himself before teaming up with coworker Brice Farrell, who previously made an appearance on robot-fighting TV series “ BattleBots.”įarrell also fell in love with combat robotics at an early age. Willems came up with the idea to form a group dedicated to building a combat robot two years ago while working at Stanley Black & Decker in Towson. “As soon as I realized it wasn’t just things I was going to build out of spare parts in my grandparents’ shed, I thought, ‘Something’s going to happen one day,’” Willems said. But once he stumbled upon combat robotics several years ago, Willems saw an opportunity to bring his talents to a bigger stage. Ricky Willems had been building robots since he was in kindergarten, mainly for pure enjoyment.
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