Duelling Robots

Love it!

Worthy successors for The Black Knight.

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LOL! Yep, the robots were real cool! They have come a long way. And with AI and fuzzy logic moving right along the way it is it might not be that far in the future when we have all those robot butlers, etc., they have been promising us for so long! LOL!
Dave Briggs :~)