A little over a year ago, nearly 8,000 extremely patriotic robot enthusiasts pledged nearly $555,000 to help American MegaBots and its Mk.II robot defeat Japan’s Kuratas robot in their upcoming duel.
Are you the type of person who watched the Hugh Jackman comedy Real Steel and thought, “This is pretty great, this robot fighting… someone should do this for real”? If you answered yes and have a few ...
Last September, MegaBots Inc. raised over $550,000 on Kickstarter to upgrade its giant, piloted robot –the Mark II– with hydraulics and heavy armor plating in preparation for a metal-bending showdown ...
From an observer's standpoint, the last two years of giant robot fighting action (or at least anticipation of) from the MegaBots team has been great fun to watch. From the initial USA vs Japan ...
It took a year and a half to finally come to pass, but last month the latest iteration of MegaBots’ giant fighting robot finally did battle with a 6.5-ton machine from Japan’s Suidobashi Heavy ...
While the 2011 movie Real Steel was widely panned during its release, the movie about a robot fighting league might have inadvertently predicted the future.Megabots, Inc., a business specializing in ...
According to Giertz invited to the factory of MegaBots, MegaBots was created by GiertzAutomatic vegetable cutting machineInspired by the latest robot "Mk. III (Mark 3)" to be released soon will be ...
Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! They were a hit at New York Comic Con, grabbing the attention of thousands of spectators ...
Who hasn't looked at a sporting event and thought that it would be better if it involved giant robots wailing on each other? That seems to be the thinking of the people behind the MegaBots Kickstarter ...
Oakland, Calif. startup MegaBots Inc. has raised $2.4 million in seed funding to bring the robot-fighting stuff of manga and anime to a venue near you. According to MegaBots cofounders, Gui Cavalcanti ...