You know when you enter your name at the name thingimagig (other than JPEARCE), you start off with 2000 quid. Your first default robot is rubbish, so sell everything on this first robot (my first bot) and build your robot from there (Kevlar armour, lifting arm, circular saw, washing machine motors from the scrapyard, a reliable battery power source and 2 pairs of large pnematic wheels.