<P> BattleBots is an American robot competition television series . Competitors design and operate remote - controlled armed and armored machines designed to fight in an arena combat elimination tournament . For five seasons, BattleBots aired on the American Comedy Central and was hosted by Bil Dwyer, Sean Salisbury, and Tim Green . Comedy Central's first season premiered on August 30, 2000, and its fifth and last season ended on December 21, 2002 . </P> <P> A six - episode revival series premiered on ABC on June 21, 2015, to generally favorable reviews and ratings . Additionally, ABC renewed BattleBots for a seventh season, which premiered on June 23, 2016 . </P> <P> BattleBots was removed from the ABC website's list of current reality shows . In February 2018, Discovery Channel and Science picked up the show for a third revival series, due to air that spring . </P> <P> BattleBots is an offshoot of the original American version of Robot Wars, the brainchild of Marc Thorpe . Robot Wars had financial backing from Sm:) e communications, a New York record company . The Thorpe / Sm:) e partnership broke up in 1997, starting many years of legal wrangling between Thorpe and Profile Records (the former Sm:) e communications). Profile licensed Robot Wars to a UK production company and Robot Wars ran for seven years as a popular television program in the UK, before being revived for 2016 . </P>

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