NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — News 8 introduced you to HUGE, a Connecticut-based combat robot that regularly competed on the Discovery Channel’s show, “BattleBots,” in 2021. We recently caught up with HUGE’s team captain, Jonathan Schultz, as they returned from the World Championship.
Team HUGE is kind of a big deal! They are 5-time “BattleBots” playoff competitors, and just three weeks ago, they made the finals of the World Championship.
In the first round, they scraped up Skorpios. They then clawed up MadCatter. In the quarterfinals, they reversed the curse from WitchDoctor and then crushed Copperhead.
“It’s what you have spent so many years dreaming of and aiming towards,” Schultz said. “You start to think something will always go wrong, so to have it not…