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As Previously Reported: In the beginning of October, the essentially bankrupt Megabots Inc. put the giant robot Eagle One up for auction. fetching a winning bid of $170k U.S.
Unfortunately the winning bid wasn't real. Nor were the bids immediately prior to it. Speculation is that they were from fans trying to help out by jacking up the bidding, so the robot remains unsold.
Bad news for Megabots, but good news if you are in the market for a 15 ton two-story robot!
Eagle Prime went back up on Ebay yesterday (this auction requires bidders email the seller for approval before bids will be accepted) and there are eight days remaining as of Halloween (Auction ends Nov 08, 17:30 PST), leaving us ample time to ponder that most profound question: retirement-or-giant-robot?
Bidding has already started, with an anemic opening bid of $1. Musk has, of course, already been tagged in the discussion.
There is no 'Buy It Now'
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @09:53AM (3 children)
If not i'm not interested.
(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Friday November 01 2019, @04:02PM (2 children)
Explained on the page. It'll cost you about $150000 for shipment outside of the US, about $30k for within US shipment. Also take into account that it can't drive on dirt (it digs itself in, only turns on concrete and pavements) and that you'll need to machine replacement pads for the tracks (costs about $7000) to drive it a first time. After about 4 hours of operation on average all sorts of oil leaks and things start happening. You'll need a truck or something for local transports but they'll give you some ramps to drive the robot onto it. Average cost for running the robot per day (at a show, etc) is about $7000 (oil, replacement parts, gasoline, etc).
Oh. The source code for the software compiles and runs on open source stuff.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @05:39PM (1 child)
Sounds worse than getting married.
(Score: 4, Funny) by pvanhoof on Friday November 01 2019, @08:46PM
You've been misinformed about marriage.