Dan Danknick
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Dan Danknick is a physicist and roboticist that graduated from UCI and has made several appearances on robotics related television shows.
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[edit] Battlebots
Danknick gained comedic notoriety in the robotics community with his successful (or interesting) appearances on the Comedy Central show Battlebots. The robot created by his Team Delta, Hazard, was consistemtly(sp) one of the highest ranked middleweight robots in the entire competition. After Battlebots, Team Delta maintained prominence as a provider of various robotics related parts.
[edit] Botbash
Danknick's Team Delta sponsored the Botbash 2002 event hosted in Tempe, Arizona. Danknick also competed with a new robot, Archetype.
[edit] Robotica
Danknick hosted the TLC show Robotica for the second and third seasons, acting as a technical commentator.
[edit] Monster Garage
Danknick appeared on an episode of the Discovery Channel show Monster Garage, where he and the other builders were tasked with transforming a Suzuki Samurai into a hot air balloon.
[edit] I'm With Busey
Danknick had a small part in an episode of the Comedy Central series I'm With Busey. Danknick was a robot builder visited by Gary Busey and Adam de la Pena who tried to show Busey that not all technology was destructive. This portion of the episode was shot at Danknick's machine shop in Anaheim, CA. Two robots were built in the days before: one semi-lame wedge sporting turkey wings and an air vent, and the other a high power flipper with a propane torch. Adam got the flame, Busey the turkey.
[edit] SERVO Magazine
Danknick served as the first technical editor of SERVO Magazine, the robotics publication. He was also a driving force behind the magazine's robotics competition, Tetsujin.
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