Bots

**Bots** are "racers" who are controlled by AIs. A bot appears after an amount of time when no racers join a race. This time depends on the speed range that the race is in, and can range from 0-5 seconds. The only bot that this rule does not apply to is The Wampus, which comes into the race one second after the fourth racer joins. Bots' cars range from Starter Cars to Muscle Cars (excluding the Liberty '69 Shellback RT-500 and the Liberty Fastback) and can have any paint job. All bots, other than The Wampus, use the "Nitro Type Bot" title. The Wampus uses the title “You’ll Never Beat Me!” During the Xmaxx events, bots would sometimes use the Rocket Sleigh instead of their normal cars. Bots can also be used by admins when racing. As well, you can not find how fast they are, their top speed, their profile, their level, or anything else related to them. Bots exist in Nitro Type and are expected to be in Nitro Math, maybe even adding in Thwampus.

## List of Bots

* **Optimus Prime** - based on the character Optimus Prime, from the Transformers franchise.

* **C-3PO** - based on the droid C-3PO, who is a character from the Star Wars franchise.

* **Bender** - may be based on Bender Bending Rodríguez, an industrial metalworking robot from the animated television series Futurama.

* **Soundwave** - may be based on the largely known Decepticon Soundwave from the Transformers franchise.

* **B.R.A.I.N.** - could be a reference to B.R.A.I.N. from "Teen Titans" and "Teen Titans Go!" shows. Another possible origin is the Brain Robot from Metal Slug.

* **Hal** - based on the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

* **Servo** - may be based on the word 'servo', short for servomechanism, a part of a robot.

* **Bishop** - may have been based on the Bishop 341-B android from the Alien franchise. Bishop is also based off a piece in the famous board game chess, and is also a rank in mideival times.

* **Gort** - may have been based on a robot known as Gort in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still where he must deliver an important message to the human race.

* **ED-209** - may have been based on the Enforcement Droid Series 209, or ED-209 robot, which is heavily armed and has a tendency to malfunctions, from the RoboCop movies.

* **Dot Matrix** - most likely based on the droid of the same name from the 1987 Star Wars parody, Spaceballs

* **T-800** - may have been based on the cyborg known as "Terminator" (Series 800, Model 101) or T-800, a programmable assassin and military infiltration unit, from The Terminator series of films.

* **Voltron** - may be based on the popularly known cartoon robot known as Voltron which is operated by a team of 5 people, known as the Voltron Force, who can combine to form a super heavy robot known as Voltron. This bot, in particular, used to have a title called "The Metal Cat", but it was switched to "Nitro Type Bot" when people continually asked how to get the title.

* **Johnny 5** - may have been based on the experimental military robot known as Number 5, which is struck by lightning and gains a more humanlike intelligence, from the movie Short Circuit (and its sequel Short Circuit 2). Number 5 renames itself as Johnny Five after the song "Who's Johnny" at the end of the first movie.

* **Kit** - named after the car featured in the popular 1980's TV show, Knight Rider.

* **Big Blue** - may be based on an innovation by IBM commonly referred to as "Big Blue" at times known for Watson Artificial Intelligence. It also may be based on a chair lift at a ski area called Squaw Valley Ski Resort.

* **Alexa** - Named after the Amazon bluetooth speaker AI, Alexa.

* **M3GAN** - Possibly named after the main character in a sci-fi horror film released in 2022.

* **Siri** - named after the Apple franchise's AI, Siri.

* **GLaDOS** - possibly named after the fictional video game character in the game, Portal, in 2007.
* **Cortana** -Most likely names after the Microsoft AI, Cortana.
* **Data** - referring to any information collected from a specific website.
* **Midjourney** - possibly named after the art-generating AI from the independent lab in San Fransisco, California, Midhourney, Inc.
* **ChatGPT** - the latest development in general AI that can hold a conversation with its users.

* **RX-78** - possibly named after the manned robot RX-78-2 in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam, released in 1979.

* **The Wampus** - which gives you $50,000 if you beat him, has an animated tag, and is the only bot with a profile page and a title other than “Nitro Type Bot”.
* **Thwampus** - The Wampus's even more elusive cousin (unreleased).

## Trivia

* When racing the Wampus, he joins the race in less than a second after the fourth player joins, regardless if the fourth was a bot or not.
* The Wampus has animations played at the end depending on how you placed.
* The Wampus is the only bot that has a visible profile. On Nitro Type, his profile says that his high speed and average speed are 100wpm. He has completed 1337 races, and has only 1 car: Wampus. On Nitro Math, his profile is largely unfinished, saying he has completed 0 Nitro Math games.