Tough As Nails (NED HW)

Tough As Nails, often abbreviated to TAN, is a Dutch heavyweight robot armed with two large horizontal crushing and gripping arms. It is one of, if not the most, successful Dutch heavyweight robots of all time. Despite being over 12 years old, Tough As Nails is still owned by the team who built it, Team KODOX.

Drive
Tough As Nails has two-wheel drive, with 2 electric motors running on 1600W. Tough As Nails has vary large, wide wheels to provide a lot of grip, although this does leave the wheels exposed to attack.

Weaponry
Tough As Nails is fitted with a pair of horizontally-mounted crushing and gripping arms which are opened and closed by a powerful pneumatic actuator situated between the wheels.

Chassis & Armour
Tough As Nails' body is made of Hardox steel. This was the first European robot to use Hardox as armour.

Other
Tough As Nails is an axlebot, meaning that more than three-quarters of the wheels' circumferences are free from the body and able to touch a surface at any time. This makes Tough As Nails nearly impossible to stack or beach.

Although it fits the weight limit for its class, Tough As Nails is too large to fit in most arena pits.

Robot History: Overview
Tough As Nails was built by Team KODOX (then called Team KOSMOS) for the second Dutch Robot Wars and for Robot Wars: The Seventh Wars. Although it fell in their first battle in the Dutch tournament, Tough As Nails reached the first round of the semi-finals in the UK tournament (The Seventh Wars) and Robot Wars' Third World Championship. Tough As Nails regularly competes in European heavyweight circuits, including Dutch RobotGames events when they can accommodate for heavyweights, and British events such as Robot Wars and Robots Live!

Honours

 * Semi-finalist: Robot Wars: The Seventh Wars
 * Semi-finalist: Robot Wars: The Third World Championship
 * Winner: FRA European Heavyweight Championship 2003
 * Winner: FRA European Heavyweight Championship 2004
 * Quarter-finalist: FRA UK HEavyweight Championship/Roaming Robots Winter Tour 2005 (These two events were combined)
 * Finalist: FRA UK Heavyweight Championship 2006
 * Winner: FRA International Special
 * Runner-up: FRA UK Heavyweight Championship Annihilator 2011 at the O2 Arena

Whiteboards

 * Tough As Nails vs Brutus vs Ripper vs Toon Raider 2
 * Tough As Nails and Toon Raider 2 were still mobile at the end of the battle and a judge's decision was not made


 * Tough As Nails vs Meggamouse vs Ripper vs Toon Raider 2
 * Tough As Nails and Toon Raider 2 were still mobile at the end of the battle and a judge's decision was not given


 * Tough As Nails vs Brutus vs Bulldog Breed vs Rattler
 * Tough As Nails won

Team Battles

 * Tough As Nails & Ripper (Team Ripper) vs Maelstrom & Manta (Team Manta)
 * Maelstrom & Manta (Team Manta) won