Aberrant Robotics

## Overview

**Aberrant Robotics** are a team who competed in four seasons of the *BattleBots* reboot and are currently on hiatus. They are best known for their heavyweight entry P1.

Luke Bittenbinder, J.T. Atkinson and Sam Mills of Aberrant Robotics previously applied for ABC Season 2 with a robot called Talos, but had to withdraw due to time restraints. The team returned and would ultimately compete with Parallax in Discovery Season 3, but suffered from severe drive problems in its battles due to being held up in customs after flying over from the United Kingdom. In 2019, they brought along other team members including Brandon Zalinsky, who later became the driver and captain of P1.

Following the team's loss to SawBlaze in the Round of 16 during the 2021 season, the team announced on Facebook that P1 will be put on hiatus while working on a new robot with an innovative weapon. Despite this, members of Aberrant Robotics joined forces with Team Uppercut and Team VALKYRIE to form Omega Team ahead of World Championship VII.

Outside of *BattleBots*, P1 has competed in several *Robot Ruckus* events, doing so in 2019 under the name **P1.2**.

## Team Members

### Brandon Zalinsky

Despite being the main name associated with the team, Zalinsky only joined the team in Aberrant Robotics' second season, coinciding with P1's *BattleBots* debut in 2019. He has since become team captain and P1's main driver. Brandon Zalinsky also competes in *Norwalk Havoc Robot League* events with his 3lb bot **Starchild** and in other competitions with 12lb lifters called **Torquedo** and **P12**. He was originally set to form part of the heavyweight multibot Caulk, though this never came to fruition. Brandon Zalinsky formed part of Omega Team in 2022, captaining a heavyweight version of Starchild.

### Luke Bittenbinder

Captain of Aberrant Robotics during the 2018 season with Parallax, Luke also fought in several US events as well as *Dragoncon* with a beetleweight version of P1 called **P1 Lite**. He has been everpresent with the team since 2018.

### Sarah Pohorecky

Sarah Pohorecky joined Aberrant Robotics ahead of the 2020 season, having spent Discovery Season 4 as part of Uppercut in their rookie campaign. Away from *BattleBots*, she has built various 12lb wedgebots in the past, as well as a beetleweight called **So Rachet** armed with a spinning wrench. A rebuilt version of So Rachet finished runner-up at *NYMF MassDestruction* in 2018. Within Aberrant Robotics, she specialized in electronics and helping to diagnose faults and took this expertise to Omega Robots in 2022, where she would assist with Ripperoni as well as Starchild.

### Anthony D'Ambrosio

On the insectweight live scene, he regularly fights alongside Evan Arias as part of Team Shreddit. D'Ambrosio was billed as part of P1 and Pain Train for Discovery Season 6, having competed a year prior with the latter.

### J.T. Atkinson

Jonathan J.T. Atkinson originates from North Yorkshire as one of several team members hailing from the United Kingdom. He has built robots since 2009 and is the creator and main director of the UK featherweight event *FightFest*. He was unable to join up with Aberrant Robotics in their most successful season to date due to travel restrictions.

### Sam Mills

Sam Mills also has a bot called **Phantom**, which has fought at *AndyMark Fight Night* events. Similarly, he was unable to attend filming for the 2021 season due to international travel rules from the UK.

### Rory Charlesworth

The third of three British-born team members, Sheffield-born Rory Charlesworth joined the team ahead of Discovery Season 5. He did not return for the 2021 season, likely due to the aforementioned travel laws. He is best known for his 30lb Aegis series of robots, unrelated to the *BattleBots* competitor of the same name and titled **Aegis Mk I** through to Mk III. Alongside Luke Bittenbinder, Rory Charlesworth helped run Parallax at *Extreme Robots* in 2018.

### Briana Vollbeer

Present for Discovery Season 4, her role concerned team finances and event planning. she also picked up machining skills during P1's creation.

### Amelia Godolphin

Joining the team in 2019, Amelia Godolphin led P1's graphic design, as well as applying CAD and engineering skills developed in high school.

### Alex Garver

Only part of the team for the 2019 season, Alex Garver specialized in electronics and programming.

## Robots

* Wins: 15
* Losses: 12

## See Also

* Aberrant Robotics (BattleBots)
* Aberrant Robotics Website