One of the interesting things about watching the remastered episodes of Robot Wars, is that you can see a lot more of the "TV magic" that made it look a lot more impressive than it really was.

Like how the 'drills' in season 1 absolutely never stood a chance to do any real damage, because they're slow-moving spirals mounted on a motor. But this probably would've looked much faster in low resolution!

Or how the 'circular saws' in many parts of the set are actually grinding discs; presumably this was more practical because they wouldn't get caught on stuff, and they would look like a fast-spinning blur on TV even if they were not.

And as a kid I always had this impression of the house robots being massively overpowered machines; but watching the remastered version, I strongly suspect they were deliberately designed to have weak spots so as to keep the spectacle going for longer 😅