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US challenges Japan to a giant robot duel
Posted on Friday, 3 July, 2015
Megabot is an undeniably impressive piece of kit. Image Credit: YouTube / MegaBots Inc
Two giant mechanized robots could soon be duking it out in a showdown of epic proportions.
Towering at a height of 15ft and weighing in at 15,000 pounds, Megabot II is a huge mechanized paintball-firing combat walker that wouldn't look out of place in the movie Pacific Rim.
Its opponent, the Japanese-made Kurutas, is 3ft shorter and weighs significantly less but is more advanced and comes equipped with a BB bullet Gatling gun and a sophisticated targeting system.
This week the US inventors behind Megabot have thrown down the gauntlet in an attempt to organize a duel between the two machines as part of an ongoing effort to start a real-life robot fighting league.
"Born of the fires of American innovation, we've built the Megapot II, America's first fully functioning piloted robot," they said. "And because we're American, we've added really, really big guns."
"The mark II isn't the first fighting robot in the world, Kuratas beat us to it. We have a giant robot, you have a giant robot. You know what that means - we challenge you to a duel."
Requiring a team of two to operate, Megabot possesses two huge modular pneumatic cannons for arms and can let loose paint-filled cannonballs at speeds of up to 120mph.
"We're bringing video games and science fiction to life in the form of internally piloted giant fighting robots," said co-founder Gui Cavalcanti.
If Japan accepts the challenge then the fight will take place in approximately one year's time.
http://www.popsci.com/americans-build-giant-robot-challenge-japan-duel
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Americans Build Giant Robot, Challenge Japan To A Duel
Because of course they do
By Kelsey D. Atherton posted Jul 1st, 2015 at 6:13pm
Megabot Fires Paintballs
Megabot Fires Paintballs
Screenshot by author, from YouTube
There are real, serious, military technology developments happening in the Pacific. This is not about that. This is about some dudes who built a giant robot for paintball battles because they could, and then challenged a giant Japanese robot to a giant robot duel. Giant robots.
Watch the challenge from the Megabot crew to Japan’s Suidobashi Heavy Industry:
Every part of this feels like a viral marketing campaign for, like, a Pacific Rim sequel. Despite an appearance at New York Comic-Con in 2014, is doesn’t appear that Megabot is marketing anything except the idea of modern, giant robot battles itself. They want to create a league for robot duels, but ones with a real sense of danger: humans control the machines from cockpits inside, rather than remotely piloting them from safety elsewhere. They are, in essence, real life mecha.
It’s an idea with mechanical legs, but perhaps limited ones. A Kickstarter campaign by MegaBots ended unsuccessfully last November, raising less than four percent of the $1.8 million project goal.
In the meantime it looks like the robot-makers are turning to hopes of an international exhibition match to jumpstart their battles. The above video is filled with footage of an apparently working Megabot, and it comes with Japanese subtitles, challenging Suidobashi Heavy Industry’s Kuratas robot to a duel to be held next year.
When it happens, we’ll see if the Megabot dream of pay-per-view robot battles is within each, or if they’re just hopelessly trying to punch above their weight.
http://www.popsci.com/we-could-have-40-exabytes-genetic-data-next-decade
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Prediction: The Japanese one will transform a bit, be flashy, and do all these other cool, showoff things. The American one will blow it away in one shot. USA! USA! USA!
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Awesome! Please let it be real!
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America beat Japan in a robot off... please, they wouldn't stand a chance.
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At the risk of simultaneously sounding like a kook AND a spoil sport, this whole USA v Asia fighting huge robots is just asking for trouble.
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If it is like US cars, it will break apart for no apparent reason, and the Jap one, will go on forever.
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Toys for "adults"
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Are you kidding? That American bot looks like it will take a serious beating, the Japanese one looks like it's a bit flimsy. To be fair I don't think the Japanese knew they were going to be challenged to a fight. At any rate, if team Japan accepts the challenge both teams have a year to negotiate fire power and armor specs, agree on scoring rules and modify their bots as necessary. If they do a pay per view event with maybe some regular battle bot preliminary bouts this could be a huge success and the begging of a brand new gladiatorial sport. One can hope.
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Hmmm, I'm all for an American bot taking on a Japanese bot, but the Japanese have been fascinated with this a bit longer I think. I would be like pitting the Power Rangers against Super Sentai. I would still love to see this battle, it reminds me of Real Steel or Big Hero 6.
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I think the Japanese bot, is a generation ahead. The US bot looks like something Japan had 5 years go that shot tennis balls.
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