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...them is reduced to a pile of junk. Now BattleBots the website (www.battlebot.com) lets you put together a virtual robot, adding a tank tread here, a sawblade there, to see how it might look in action. As well as providing news of upcoming competitions, pro tips on bot-building and rules for entry, the site is one of the first to employ the new SVG graphics and animation file format that lets you customize your onscreen destruction machines. You can't make a complete blueprint or engage in virtual combat - not yet, anyway - but online brainstorming might save time when...
That may be wishful thinking, and there's certainly a lot of that in the bot business. Tiger claims its Mousies can sumo wrestle, but it takes a vivid imagination to interpret their random bumping as sumo body blows. Likewise, the company's seemingly endless line of Robo-Chi toys (cat, bird, dogs, even a plant) do little more than bark and squawk at one another...
...view will introduce the American public to the phenomenon of Battle Bots with the special, ``Battle Bots World Championship: Bot Bowl 1," which will last...
Still, more than most, Bezos is likely to adapt to this brave new bot world. He understands its fundamental creed. "The balance of power online fundamentally shifts from merchants to consumers," he says. Indeed, thanks to shopping bots, the party won't just be at his place anymore...