Hyper Combat · Combat Robotics Program

Built to fight.
Built to last.

Hyper Combat is HyperLine Robotics' arena combat program — purpose-built machines that meet other robots in a steel-walled box and only one drives out. Carbon armour, kinetic weapons, brushless drivetrains, and a lot of late nights.

Ant & Beetle

Weight Classes

Podiums 2026

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Rebuilds

What is combat robotics?

A sport for engineers who hit back.

Two robots, one arena, three minutes. Combat robotics is the most unforgiving discipline in robotics — every design choice is tested by another team trying to break it. Weapons spin at thousands of RPM, armour cracks, electronics get punched into the floor.

What looks like a fight is actually engineering at full intensity. Material science, controls, power electronics, mechanical design and battlefield strategy — all packed into a robot you can hold in one hand.

Weight classes

Two classes. Two ways to hurt.

Combat is divided by mass. We compete in two classes — the agile Antweight and the heavier-hitting Beetleweight. Each one teaches a different lesson.

454 / 500 g

Antweight · Our class

Brushless power, carbon plate and 3D-printed armour packed into half a kilo. Fast, replaceable, relentless — and where Hyper Combat first proved itself.

1.36 / 1.5 kg

Beetleweight · Our class

Real kinetic energy territory. Bigger weapons, harder hits, full carbon armour. Our heavyweight bracket — and the toughest school we have.

HyperLine in the arena

From line followers to live combat.

We started HyperLine with line followers and mini sumos — chasing milliseconds and grip. Combat is a different language: kinetic energy, armour budgets and the cold question of "what happens when this gets hit at full speed?"

Hyper Combat is our answer. Every robot in this program is built from the ground up by the same hands that build our line followers — but tuned for survival, not lap times. Every match teaches us something the workshop can't.

Season 2026