He works as a field service engineer for EOS, a German company that makes 3D printers. Macht is a Montgomery native who graduated from Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy. So, that’s one of my favorite parts is just fabricating all of these things.” “None of these parts you buy,” Cohen said. Joining Shaggy on Team Moebius is Chrystopher Rhodes of Dayton, Kevin Berry, a former NASA employee from Florida, and Seth Cohen, education coordinator at The Manufactory. I’m happy with how the design came together and we put on an amazing show.” “I can’t say a whole lot about how we did,” Macht said. The episode featuring Macht and the rest of Team Moebius was filmed in Los Angeles in April and airs tonight at 8 p.m.

ABC brought the show back to life last summer, committing to 10 episodes this year. The made-for-TV sport aired for five seasons on Comedy Central. The end result was Moebius, a spinning robot that weighs about 250 pounds and has an armored shell with ax heads that chop like a blender when the machine gets to its top speed of 399 miles per hour.īattleBots is a “killer robot combat sport” in which competitors design and build robots that fight to the finish in a single-elimination tournament. “People just kept giving me advice.”Ī titanium skull named Snuggens adorns Moebius He credits fellow members of The Manufactory with making parts for his BattleBot, sharpening its ax blades and applying its neon-green finish. Macht is a member of The Manufactory, a “maker space” where inventors have access to milling, grinding and cutting tools to bring their ideas to life. “They kind of had a hand in almost every part of it,” said Macht, an engineer from Middletown who spent six weeks building his robot warrior, Moebius. UPDATE: After Team Moebius was defeated by Team Brutus on ABC's BattleBots show Thursday, it told its Facebook fans it's 'already working out plans for next year.'ĬINCINNATI - When Michael “Shaggy” Macht makes his appearance on ABC’s BattleBots show Thursday night, he’ll celebrate the feat with friends at The Manufactory in Sharonville.

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