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posted by martyb on Friday August 21 2015, @08:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the Rock-'em-Sock-'em-Robots dept.

[translation mine] A US company wants to compete with the giant robot of a Japanese competitor. However, they're apparently lacking the money to complete their own battle machine. Now they're turning to patriots for help.

For the representatives of the company MegaBots, there is nothing more beautiful than robots that tear each other to pieces. "Your childhood dreams have come - can you hear them knocking?", asks the speaker in a video on Kickstarter. As though it were unthinkable, that someone could find a duel of nations in highly stylized robot battle dubious or completely superfluous. A battle advertised with slogans like "Together we can conquer Japan!"

In practice it's not about real declarations of war, but a robot duel between the US company MegaBots and the Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry. At the end of July, MegaBots challenged its competitor from the Far East to pit their model named Kurata against MegaBots' Mk.II in the summer of 2016.

MegaBots is hoping to raise $500,000 on Kickstarter to fund their robot. Are they hoping for a Reality TV show?


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by PinkyGigglebrain on Friday August 21 2015, @08:47PM

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Friday August 21 2015, @08:47PM (#226017)

    First off; its not a robot, its a mech. A robot is autonomous, capable of following programmed instructions with out human intervention. This thing needs a pilot for it to do anything. (I know, I know, everyone calls them robots, its a pet peeve that i need to take out every now and then so it gets its RDA of vitamin D)

    Second; wasn't it the US team that issued the original challenge? Now it seems like it was just a ploy to get PR so they could get money to finish the mech that should have been finished before they issued the challenge.

    Third; WTF? the only link in the summary is to a German site. I guess martyb didn't bother to consider that many, if not most, of the Soylent readers are not able to read German. Need to work on that a bit martyb.

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