About

Team Boilerbots is a premier robot fighting team dating back to 1996. The team first began after Curt Meyers graduated from Purdue university. Purdue has a long history in sports and their teams nickname are the boilermakers. I came up with the name Boilerbots as an adaptation for my robot team. Please respect the Boilerbots ™ name.

We have built several robots for fighting. Their names in chronological order are Pokey, Kill-O-Amp, Jaws of Death and Counter Revolution.

Over the years there are been many contributors to the team. Building robots is hard work and I would like to acknowledge each person that has contributed in some way.

Active Members for Season 6 Battlebots

Curt Meyers – Owner and Team Captain

Works as a computer and electrical engineer at Suitable Technologies and lives in San Jose California. Notable jobs in the past include Willow Garage and Schlumberger ATE division. Interesting hobbies include robots, Darpa Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge participant, custom automobile projects and home construction/destruction.

Dallas Goecker

Works as a computer and electrical engineer at Suitable Technologies. Past jobs include Willow Garage and Teradyne ATE. Dallas’s hobbies include robot building, coaching high school robotics, coaching baseball and soccer. Dallas lives in Seymour Indiana and works for Suitable remotely using the Beam. He helps team Boilerbots from Indiana.

Keith Richards

Works at Suitable Technologies in software quality assurance. His past jobs include working for Cisco. He was a mentor for First Robotic competition at Eastridge High School, Florida on team: Night And Nerdy #2797. His hobbies include working with kids on a home brew UGV with obstacle avoidance technology.
Keith lives in Fremont California

Steve Bietzer

Works at Suitable Technologies as a mechanical engineer. He lives in Folsom California. Steve enjoys the outdoors including bike rides, kayaking and fishing.

Chad Meyers (Dr. Meyers)

Director, Emergency Critical Care – Elmhurst Hospital Center

Assistant professor, Clinical Emergency Medicine and Surgical Critical Care – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

When Dr. Meyers is not working in the hospital he helps with the graphics design on the robot and the team uniforms.

Peter Doung

Works as the engineering technician at Suitable Technologies. Peter lives in San Jose California.

Past Team Members

Michael Gregg

Clay Lambert

Melonee Wise-Gregg

Derek King

Amy Sun