A battling family will be reliving their experiences but their war was strictly confined to a television arena.
Charlotte and Adam Hamilton-Macy took part in the filming of Robot Wars Extreme II New Blood series.
The programmes are currently being shown on BBC Choice. On Thursday, the family's robot, Pressure, will be in action.
Charlotte and Adam, who go to Stanway School, took part with their dad, Mike, in the competition, which was filmed in Nottingham.
Charlotte, 12, said: "It was my dad's idea to go in for Robot Wars. He started building the robot two years ago and we helped him with some of the work."
Their robot was made from a 2mm thick steel shell. Its weapons included a unique folding axe, flippers at the front and back and spikes in the side
If you want to find out how the got on tune in to BBC Choice at 7.30pm on Thursday.
Published Wednesday, January 22, 2003
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