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+====== Flippers ======
+Flippers are one of the most popular weapons. At a basic level, a flipper consists of an arm designed to slide under the opposing robot, and then raise up-wards to turn the opponent over.  If the other robot has no way of getting back onto its wheels this can prove an effective means of immobilising it.
+In the heavier weight classes they are usually pneumatically powered, while most Antweight flippers are powered by servos or motors. However there have been a few [[Antweights]] with pneumatic flippers. Many of these used pistons and gas tanks from the Lego pneumatics set, which provides a faster and more powerful flipper than using servos.  Making a pneumatic flipper suitable for use in an Antweight is more difficult however, as the gas tank and pistons take up a lot of room and weight compared to a servo.
+Some of the most successful and popular robots throughout all the weight categories have been flippers. For instance:
+>Toro (former [[superheavyweight]] champion)
+>Chaos 2 (former 2 time [[heavyweight]] champion)
+>Aftershock ([[featherweight]] champion)
+>Stewie (the runner up of AWS 25)
+>Odyssey (Antweight with 3 championships)

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