Though Royster said he isn’t permitted to say when he and his team will first be seen on television, he expects HyperShock will appear in multiple episodes. The first two-hour episode of the new “BattleBots” season will premiere at 7 p.m. In October, he spent two weeks in Long Beach, California, where HyperShock was one of 60 bots that fought as cameras rolled to prepare for the TV show’s upcoming season. Royster this year joined the long-running HyperShock team, custom-producing components for the bot from military-grade titanium as well as aluminum. More: Hendersonian’s creations inspired by sci-fi, games exhibited here He also couldn’t know that he would personally manufacture some of the key components for one of the mechanical pugilists.īut even then, at age 12, he was already developing technical skills as a machinist and designer - working with his father and uncle at Royster’s Machine Shop and Royster’s Production Machining (RPM) in Henderson - that would open the door to him becoming a member of a BattleBots team.
When a young Collin Royster first tuned into the robot combat TV show “BattleBots” two decades ago, he could scarcely have known that he would himself appear on the show years later.
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