- Is this the most BADASS news ever?
- US-based robotics company Megabots Inc has challenged Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry to a GIANT ROBOT DUEL!
- According to Megabots Inc co-founder Gui Cavalcanti, it is hoped that the duel will kickstart a league of giant fighting robots.
- In the US corner is the 15-foot Mark II, being “12,000 pounds of gasoline-powered fury” with a cannon that can shoot custom-made 3-pound paintballs.
- In the Japanese corner is Kuratas, a 15-foot, 10,000 pound robot that sits on 4 wheels and has a gatling gun for an arm.
- According to the video challenge, Megabots says: “You have a giant robot, we have a giant robot…in one year we fight!”
Read more:
http://mashable.com/2015/07/01/usa-japan-robot-duel/
http://qz.com/442657/an-american-giant-robot-just-challenged-a-japanese-giant-robot-to-a-duel/
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/03/robot-wars-america-japan-megabot-show-down_n_7720334.html
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