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See Giant Robots Fight. US vs Japan Match On YouTube (cnbc.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the everybody-was-robot-fighting dept.

AmiMoJo writes: Suidobashi Heavy Industries and MegaBots agreed to test their piloted giant robots in combat a few years back, and the content is finally available on YouTube. It ended in a draw, with Japan decisively winning the first bout with a single punch and the US team winning the second thanks to a chainsaw weapon. There have been some complaints that the whole event felt scripted, but it's early days yet. ITMedia has a nice gallery of photos from the event. "The MegaBots team expressed hope for a formal fighting robot league in the future," reports CNBC.

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  1. The whole event felt scripted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's because it was scripted. It's about as real as a WWE fight, and about four times more boring.

    1. Re:The whole event felt scripted by Somebody+Is+Using+My · · Score: 3, Informative

      More than just being scripted, it wasn't even real-time. The actual fight was filmed over multiple days. This was the most entertaining cut of all that work, which is rather sad. The moves were all pre-programmed and carefully choreographed. 30 years on and millions of dollars later and we still end up with something that looked significantly less impressive than the power-loader fight in Aliens and had just about as much verisimilitude.