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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on July 07, 2015, 07:10:53 AM

Title: Japan and America agree to put giant fighting robots into battle
Post by: BlueStateSaint on July 07, 2015, 07:10:53 AM

It's all fun and games now . . . :zap:

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Japan and America agree to put giant fighting robots into battle

Japan's Suidobashi accepts MegaBots' challenge of a duel, paving the way for robot wars on a grand scale

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03366/megabots_3366274b.jpg)
The MegaBots Mark II in action

It's the moment we've all been waiting for: two giant fighting robots - one Japanese and one American - will square off in a melee one year from now.

That is, if the robots' two owners keep their word.

Last week, MegaBots, an American engineering company, challenged Japan's Suidobashi Heavy Industry to a duel.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XVJTGLL2SnI[/youtube]

The battle would pitch the 12,000 lbs (850-stone) MegaBots Mark II against Suidobashi's Kuratas, which weighs 9,000 lbs.

Now, Suidobashi has responded, saying it accepts the challenge - on one condition.

Naturally, you have to go to the link to read the "one condition," and the rest of the article.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11721037/Japan-and-America-agree-to-put-giant-fighting-robots-into-battle.html

Could be interesting . . . :whistling: :zap:

Title: Re: Japan and America agree to put giant fighting robots into battle
Post by: FiddyBeowulf on July 09, 2015, 08:13:35 AM

They are not robots, they have pilots so I think mecha would be a better term.