Case Study: HyperShock achieves faster, stronger, and more stylish robot designs with SOLIDWORKS

Team HyperShock Optimizes Robot Designs for Functionality, Efficiency, and Mojo with SOLIDWORKS

HyperShock, the BattleBots team founded by Will Bales and Tyler Bond, needed to design competitive vertical-disc spinner robots on an aggressive one-month schedule to meet production deadlines. To iterate quickly and communicate with suppliers, the team relied on the SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD platform and associated Simulation and Visualize tools from SolidWorks (including a SolidWorks sponsorship that provides additional simulation and visualization capabilities).

SolidWorks’ tools enabled rapid iteration, industry-standard data exchange with vendors, and simulation-driven optimization for strength, weight, and aesthetics, allowing HyperShock to complete designs within the one-month window, minimize production and assembly delays, and improve durability and performance. The result is faster development cycles and consistently robust, visually striking robots accelerated by SolidWorks’ software and support.

HyperShock

Will Bales

Team Captain