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Japanese and US Piloted Robots To Brawl For National Pride
jfruh writes: Japan may have just lost the Women's World Cup to the U.S., but the country is hoping for a comeback in another competition: a battle between giant robots. Suidobashi Heavy Industry has agreed to a challenge from Boston-based MegaBots that would involve titanic armored robots developed by each startup, the first of its kind involving piloted machines that are roughly 4 meters tall. "We can't let another country win this," Kogoro Kurata, who is CEO of Suidobashi, said in a video posted to YouTube. "Giant robots are Japanese culture."
for the cheesy family movie "Real Steel"?
Did this immediately remind anyone else of One Must Fall 2097, the DOS video game that you loved growing up?
Mechanic: "Humph. You think you're pretty good, don't you. Well, if I was younger, I'd show you a thing or two."
>> titanic armored robots...roughly 4 meters tall
I think you dropped a trailing zero there. Godzilla-threatening, otherwise we're not interested.
Fuck drones. Gundams are coming!
Whichever country's version of "Go Lion" forms "Blazing Sword" first, wins! That's always the final part of every battle.
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FIFA let the US win....right....right. Watch out for them black helicopters and trucks buddy, cause you know they ARE chasing you.
Uh, yeah. World Cup champions 91, 99, 2015. Olympic Gold 96, 04, 08, 12. Olympic Silver 2000. World Cup 2nd 2011. World Cup 3rd 95, 03, 07.
'Finally let won' indeed.
At only four metres tall, I wouldn't call them giant.
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In the US we love big machines. The Queen Mary, the Spruce Goose, the continuous asphalt pavers, the Liebherr T 282 B giant dump truck (although Liebherr is a Swiss company), the Boeing 747-400 and Lockheed L-1011 wide-body passenger jets, the massive Abrams tank, the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, the 280mm towed howitzer M65 "Atomic Annie", and such are examples.
See how I slipped a Swiss-built monster in there? Well, the US and Japan aren't the only ones. Germany has a 31 million pound excavator. The largest plane is made in Russia by Antonov. South Korea builds some of the biggest cargo ships.
So while, yes, giant robots are a big thing in Japanese art the urge to build huge machines is all over the industrialized world. The US and Germany have never been afraid of large engineering feats. The US has a whole industry of using remotely piloted craft for actual combat.
I don't think Japan needs to focus so much pride on this one little competition as a cultural identity issue. It's not like a US firm is going to enter a contest designing and building a robot with the intent of a face-saving loss or an honorable tie.
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It seems the US and Japan have a long history of working together to develop the idea of giant fighting robots.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
I'm really hoping this goes somewhere good, it would be an interesting match and the potential birth of a new sport.
The American bot seems more durable from the thickness of steel used (Might be because you can't get a terribly good look at the cross section of the Japanese one) but the Japanese bot seems to have more advanced controls (Looks to be more of an armslave setup).
I'd love to ask the American team why they chose such a small output gasoline engine over a diesel.
I'm just curious how they would fight exactly. And since the Japanese team wants melee, what that would entail. As cool as a giant induction blade or plasma cutter would be I don't either one has an adequate power supply. That just leaves hydraulic jaws or pneumatic/combustion rams, but I can't see any of this being used due to the danger to the pilot.
I'd love to see more technical specifications.
Uh, the Queen Mary may be moored here but she is a British ship.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
You comment was "Over the top"
I only look human.
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If you think the US, which has won 3 of the last 7 World Cups, and 4 of the last 5 Olympic Golds, could not have won without involvment from FIFA, you must be a Dumbfuckian.
Yeah, because the previous World Cup champion knows nothing about football. Moron.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
We know what 'girls football' is.
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Honorable warfare between distant clans is all well and good until someone decides to retake the Inner Sphere.
Drones are saving large numbers of our soldiers as well as keeping innocents safe in conflicts. No longer need we bomb an entire city to kill one or two bad guys. That drone may have a human operator or be on auto pilot. But my point is that smaller robots may well be of more vital importance than huge robots. We do not need to stomp down cities like Godzilla. But a small drone with a small grenade flying through a bedroom window can kill an enemy without killing thousands of innocents. I do see that very large robots could get the public more aware and more eager to see high function robots and that might lead to better funding and training of engineers which is great. But in the end the tiny robot is what we really need the most. A self driving car may well have the "robotics" built into the dash board and look like any other car. The robot is essentially invisible. And the robot can actually be spread about in various nooks and crannies of a machine. We need not fixate on a robot that we can see as an entity in itself. Imagine a very simple robot such that each leg of a table adjusts so that the table is level and does not rock on its legs. The robotics could be concealed within the table legs and no one would suspect unless the table was moved and the legs needed to adjust themselves to the new place on the floor.
Unfortunately 100 tons crushing down on a small knee makes walking impossible, let alone combat maneuvering. Shoot a $50 shell at the leg and the billion-dollar mecha can't stand. Then sustained fuel is pretty impossible; whenever Evangelion highlighted tethers it was just being honest. But more than energy, we'd need materials research.
You can scale better in space, where thrust/load bearing can be distributed away from legs. But space combat is still pretty fiction anyway.
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Japanese robots are very cute... a little too cute.
I mean... look at this:
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Just some 'merican smack talk to inspire the japanese to try harder.
We're over here building skynet... so your work should be cut out for you.
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I'm Spanish. My national (male) football team went from winning an Euro Cup, the World Cup, and another Euro Cup in a row (something that nobody had done before), to losing in the next World Cup group stage with unbelievable bad results. So yes, it can happen without FIFA brivery.
Sometimes reporting, or history, distorts the focus or some aspect of an event. For instance most of us were led to believe that Sputnik was an effort of a cold-war space-race instead of being part of an international geophysical year. (analysis of how the U.S. and others perceived it and what response followed is another matter)
Hehe, bad choice of examples. Yes, Sputnik was launched during an IGY year of "cooperation"... but that doesn't mean it wasn't a cold war space race from the beginning. The USSR announced their intention to launch an artificial satellite nine days after the US announced the same intention. Then the USSR went forward with designing the satellite, only to discover that their original planned machine was going to take too long. Afraid that the US might beat them to it, they stepped back and focused on a simpler design so they could get it into space faster, and beat the US. As soon as their launch vehicle was good to go, they launched, pushing back some planned military test launches to do it.
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Yes I remember, and had completely forgotten until you reminded me.
I think you may be missing the point. A giant robot fight simply promises to be an awesome spectacle generating fantastic publicity for both companies and the industry in general. Pre-game trash talk is just part of the publicity game.
No, no - it's about national pride. Really.
Lol. Do you have any idea what a retarded conspiracy kook you sound like, you daft cunt?
I know the fight will be boring and all but my inner-child is fidgeting restlessly. I hope Japan paint their robot red because for all we know, it will go three times faster.
Maybe that's why we think soccer is a game for little girls. It's too easy.
I know Gui Cavalcanti and the merry band at MegaBots, and while I never asked directly about the specifics of their their business plan, it seemed like their relocation from Somerville, MA [Artisan's Asylum makerspace] to the SF area earlier this year was permanent "for the foreseeable future"
I'll be quite truthful, a lot of it looked like a mockup and didn't actually move functionally. It was a good mock up, but I don't think it is really "real".
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A game where you have an opponent - too easy? You realise that's a weird thing to say don't you? Is chess too easy? Depends who you're up against, I would have thought most people with a functioning mind would say. Perhaps you should pop over to Europe and show Messi how easy it is.
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You know, because that's a thing that usually happens in football matches.
You thought you were being sarcastic, but nope, it happens. Maybe not usually, but often enough for it to be perfectly believable without dark conspiracies.
Perhaps someone paid to lose a game might go about it in a slightly subtler manner?
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
I guess I should qualify and say "Too easy to beat the Europeans".