A note for BentoBot.

I'm Thomas and I love building robots. I have 2 friends, Ankitt and Farooq. I wanted to share the robots I built with them.

However, we're in 3 different countries, Ankitt is in India, Farooq is from Canada, and I'm in Florida. So I built BentoBot as a way for all 3 of us to control robots and have fun.

This eventually grew into the World's most accessible combat robotics we call it. I built 3 combat robotics & people from all around the world controlled them in fights with sub-500ms end-to-end latency.

We did 17 live-stream fights. 100+ players from Canada, India, Netherland, USA, Columbia, etc. There was fun to be had, stories to be shared.

We made a Dutch alcoholic gave up on drinking. (Now he's addicted to robot fights and occasionally, weed) We helped a mother of two gain the courage to pursue chemotherapy to live longer. We made a few churches in India fun again on Sunday. And for many, this was the most fun they have had with robotics in years.

For something built by a guy in a bedroom for 2 weeks, that has been the proudest creation of mine.

Due to the logistics and time constraints, I have retired Bentobot. However, I believe it can be useful to the world.

I'm open-sourcing the whole codebase (website, streaming backend, frontend, robot CAD design) so the next guy/gal can start their own robot fight.

There are 3 robots built & frequently used in the fights.

1. Snow White

2. Men in Black

3. Cylone

• Website: Github Repo
• Streaming Backend: For 50 ppl or lessor to scale further
• Frontend & Robot control: Github Repo
• Robot CAD Design: Onshape

If you have any questions, feel free to let me know at tungvunguyennguyen@gmail.com :)

Or hop on our Discord channel https://discord.gg/rQWPPPNMmZ