Sacramento State&s Competitive Robotics club hosted their bi-annual robot battle with competitors from across the state.

Maneuverable robots filled the Hinde Auditorium on Sunday, attacking and slicing into other similar machines and forcing them up against the Plexiglas walls.

Last year&s winner of the Sac State hosted competition, Team Fat Cats, is a father- son team led by the son, Andy Sauro. The Sauro&s, of San Francisco, went on to win the Robot Fighting League&s national championship in San Francisco. At this year&s Sac State robot battle, 14-year- old Danny Fukuba from Paly High School of Palo Alto overpowered the father-son team who have been fighting robots for four years.

Fukuba has only been working on fighting robots for six months and was part of a three-man team called Team Slayer with Alex and Mike Tramiel who collaboratively entered four robots. Fukuba won the competition with his own individual robot and after winning Sunday&s competition, qualifies for the Robot Fighting League&s national championship competition. The championship battle will take place this October in Orlando Florida.

Fighting robot competitors like Fukuba wouldn&t be able to battle their robots at Sac State if it wasn&t for the work of the Competitive Robotics club.

&The club is always looking for anyone who knows about electrical mechanics, but the club has also had people from the art department and business department join,& club president Zack Schultz said. The club is divided up into groups and each group has a project manager. Right now, Competitive Robotics is working on one heavy weight robot, which is a robot weighing in at more than 200 pounds.

&There is someway for everyone to contribute to the club,& Schultz encouraged.

The club, which currently consists of about 15 people from various majors, regularly meets on Tuesday&s in the Riverside building room 1015 at 6 p.m.