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There's a new boxer in town named Balboa... and he's one mean hi-tech boxing robot!!! I wonder if Muhammad Ali, NeXTSTORM 's little one-kit boxing robot, would win in a match against Balboa? What do you think? MySnailEatsPizza did a real fine job with this one!! I really like his little red gloves ;)  : . .  

The Google Science Fair is already over and the winners have been announced at the  awards ceremony held   Monday, July 23rd, 2012  in Palo Alto, California!! LEGO, a proud partner of this awesome scientific event was present and brought along some cool MINDSTORMS robot for the finalists to play with.  Featured this year was the work of  Vassilis Chryssanthakopoulos better know to us as NeXTSTORM or the Crazy Greek Robotic Expert ;)  His Real Steel Boxing robots where there along with an army of "Muhammad Ali" (soon to be a bonus models available on the MINDSTORMS page).   He is also the brains  behind one last challenge for the finalists:  The Fusion mission: Leading scientist working for the United Nations have found out, that a fusion of selected rare metals can create a new substance and commodity that more than doubles the performance compared to using the metals individually. These metals have now been discovere...

Here is the official video featuring NeXTSTORMS Boxing Robots filmed at LEGO WORLD Copenhagen 2012 In this excellent video you will see the original Real Steel Robots that where first seen in Abu Dhabi WRO event video but pay close attention and you will notice 2 Mini Boxing Robots as well as A One Kit version named "Muhammad Ali" that you will soon be able to build once the BI get published! <p>As<br></p> I've pasted below some technical details as found in the show more info of the video: Real Steel Robots: Each robot set (the boxer and its controller) is consisted of 4 MINDSTORMS NXT Intelligent Bricks, 7 NXT motors, 2 light sensors, 3 color sensors, 9 Touch sensors, 4 rechargeable batteries, 1 HiTechnic Acceleration/Tilt sensors, 1 HiTechnic Sensor Mux, 10,25 meters of NXT cables. The black Mini Boxing Robots are controlled over Bluetooth by ultrasonic-based controllers. Each mini robot s...