<grin> Sure, the jaws of life may be overkill ... but, still - can you imagine it? I'm pretty sure that IF a bot were to get caught in them, it'd have a ragged gaping tear in the skin. And that would be some good fun. Also, as for the spike ... a garage door spring ... let's see - would that be DISECTOR who uses that? I think that's the bot that punched through a walker's armour (if I remember correctly) - it was pretty cool.

Of course, if we *really* wanted to build an AO bot, maybe it'd end up employing the "break up and rejoin at the end of the match" routine - that's legal if you can get everything to join back up via r/c (read: velcro). I think it'd be great to have about 10 people with a "mega-bot" that splits off into 10 small robots and just surrounds and zaps, jabs, pushes, and hammers away at the opponent.

Of course, the electrical work would likely be staggering.

~N~