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Women in the controls and brandi hitt gives us the first look. i'm old enough. >> reporter: it's a fight to the death. robot versus robot, using saw blades and flame throwers back in the arena for a new season of "battlebots" on abc. and this is one of the fierce competitors, chomp. >> chomp is definitely a girl. chomp is a very serious lady. >> reporter: designed and engineered by 25-year-old zoe stevenson and her team. >> i wanted to use flame, originally. >> reporter: and chomp has that along with this steel fang chomping down with ten tons of force, crushing metal, even this watermelon for...

Girls excited to compete against her this season. >> just because we're a team of 16-year-old girls, don't underestimate us. >> reporter: and that's exactly what the show's co-founders were hoping for. >> it's that spark for a young person to want to get into engineering. >> oh, hello! >> reporter: stevenson let us drive chomp, which isn't easy. >> sometimes i sort of -- you wait, you aim, you try and line it up. >> reporter: she's a $20,000 robot that took three months to build with the help of sponsors. >> hours and hours of design and stress analysis. >> reporter: now armed to take out her ...

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