Dan Danknick

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Dan Danknick is a physicist and roboticist who graduated from UCI and has made several appearances on robotics related television shows. [1]

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Battlebots

Danknick gained comedic notoriety in the robotics community with his appearances on the Comedy Central show Battlebots. [2] The robot created by his Team Delta, Hazard, was consistently one of the highest ranked middleweight robots in the entire competition.[ citation needed ]

Robotica

Danknick hosted the TLC show Robotica for the second and third seasons, acting as a technical commentator. [3]

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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