ETL Systems' team of engineers battle it out in classic Robot Wars Tournament

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Peter Davison

ETL Systems' Robot Wars Battle 2023

ETL Systems, the Hereford-based global manufacturer and distributor of critical RF equipment for satellite ground stations and RF components, gave its team of engineers a blast from the past with an exciting Robot Wars tournament.

Based on the original 1998 hit TV series on BBC, the team had the exclusive opportunity to battle against one another using famous fighting robots, Matilda and Sir Killalot, in a fully equipped Robot Wars arena mockup.

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The event was hosted by Team Tactics, who have worked in partnership with Robo Challenge for over 20 years and are well-versed in the art of robot fighting.

Commissioned by ETL, the Robot Wars tournament formed the team-building element of its first-ever annual Engineering Convention.

The conference aimed to bring together the whole ETL team, outside their usual work environment, to expand on their knowledge and consisted of peer-to-peer presentations, an after-dinner talk with Satellite Innovation Group's executive, Martin Coleman, and the Robot Wars team building challenge.

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Seth Allen, electronics team leader at ETL, said: "Robot Wars has inspired a generation of engineers, and with that, much of our team were delighted to have the opportunity to put their expertise to the test in an exciting tournament.

"Our first ETL Engineering Conference was a fantastic opportunity for us to sit-down with each other and recognise all the amazing achievements during 2023."

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.