With a record of 40 wins and 6 losses (one through concession) in the UK Robot Wars series, Razer is recognised as one of the most successful competitors in the programme's history.
It was featured on Robot Wars merchandise including a DVD and video games, and had a pull-back toy created in its image—one of which was later modified by Ian Lewis to function as a fully radio controllable miniature version of the team's original heavyweight machine.
The cause of Razer's immobilisation in this fight was the shearing of nylon cush drives—cushioning blocks designed to prevent stress fractures—in the machine's drive wheels; these were replaced with more robust metal ones for future competitions.
[14] Razer's four-wheeled drive train used a skid-steering arrangement, whereby the wheels on one side of the robot rotated faster than those on the other to turn the machine.
For the third series, Razer used custom-made aluminium drive wheels which incorporated rollers, reducing the amount of force required for simultaneous forward and sideways movement.
These wheels were later upgraded with a stronger titanium construction, whilst the level of oversteer in the drive system was reduced through the implementation of an electronic gyroscope.
[9] For the series Robot Wars Extreme II, Razer's rubber front wheels were replaced with metal ones bearing small spiked protrusions.
Lewis and Scott noted that when Razer was overturned with its piercing arm fully upright, the robot was more than halfway towards naturally rolling back onto its wheels.
The unique design provided Razer with a "victory salute"—raising its claw and wings whilst standing on its tail—but had the downside of putting the machine over the weight limit of 79.4 kilograms (175 lb).
By the time of Razer's Robot Wars Extreme II appearances, the machine weighed 92 kilograms (203 lb), was 1.14 metres (3.7 ft) long, and reached a top speed of 11 miles per hour (18 km/h).
[13] Radio interference caused Razer to be hard to control in the Gauntlet stage of the competition, but it successfully navigated the obstacle course and progressed to the Trial.
Whilst Razer made the stronger start, crumpling Inquisitor's flail support, the cush drives in its motors sheared after an impact on the arena floor.
[5][6] From series three of Robot Wars, the Gauntlet and Trial stages of each heat were dropped, with the whole of the main competition formed around direct combat.
[26][27] Outside of the main UK championship, Razer won the concurrent Pinball Warrior Tournament side event and retained the Best Design award.
Following forfeiture by Prometheus, its scheduled first opponent, Razer beat the Dutch representative Techno-Lease and Irish entrant Diotoir to win the tournament.
Dominant victories over the Scottish robot All Torque and fellow English entrants Chaos 2 and 101 put Razer into the Final against compatriots Behemoth.
Pussycat severely damaged the back end and wheels of Razer, until Dead Metal of the house robots pitted the machine.
Although Scott and Blood were gracious in defeat, Lewis turned his back on the fight, left the control booth immediately afterwards, and refused to be interviewed by Craig Charles.
[33] Razer also took part in the Pinball Warrior and Sumo Basho side tournaments of series four; its performances were underwhelming in both events, scoring 95 points in the former having abandoned the run partway through to attack Sir Killalot, and lasting less than five seconds in the latter.
[36] An attack by Razer's arm on one of Onslaught's rear wheels saw its adversary shed a tyre, lose grip, and drive into an area patrolled by Matilda.
[37] It next took part in the All-Stars tournament of Robot Wars Extreme, beating Gemini, Behemoth and Firestorm 3 to establish a grand final against Tornado.
[39] Ian Lewis of Team Razer competed in a seven-way melee featuring antweight robots—miniature machines that weighed less than 150 grams (5.3 oz) and fitted into a four-inch (10.16 cm) cube.
Being classed as a walking robot, DrillZilla could ignore the normal weight limit and thus had 10 millimetres (0.39 in) thick armour; knowing that they would be unable to pierce this, Razer concentrated on inflicting cosmetic damage to its opponent's rubber feet.
Victory handed Razer a place in the series five grand final against Bigger Brother, rebuilt after being heavily damaged by Hypno-Disc in its previous battle.
Having declared the modification to the judges prior to the competition, it controversially qualified as an "interchangeable weapon", and the added advantage of this setup was that the size of the framework needed to support the large spinning blade prevented Razer's claw from reaching Tornado's chassis.
Team Razer responded by attaching a metal lifting hook to the front of their robot's crushing arm just moments before the fight.
Despite suffering a few dents from its encounter with the arena walls and one huge blow from Shunt's axe, Razer turned the tables in the fight's last moments.
Indeed, commentator Jonathan Pearce wondered aloud during live commentary whether the judges, following the conclusion of the fight, would take a look at Torando's external 'rigging' for future iterations of Robot Wars and discuss whether it should be allowed.
[55] Razer returned to action for the 2016 revival of Robot Wars,[56] but was knocked out in the first round after being dragged into the pit by Kill-E Crank-E while attempting to push it in, immobilising both.
The version of Razer which competed in the fourth series of Robot Wars was used as the model for a pull-back toy powered by friction motors.