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

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.

Comments

Wowwwwww.

[shess]

That was the lamest thing I've seen all day. And to set the bar, I'm a middle-aged dad who just got back from a Pokemon Go raid.

Re:Wowwwwww.

[Ogive17]

The 1-punch KO was quite funny.. however the build up was excessive and the mis-match in size and weaponry of the 2nd match made it a bit stupid.

Pathetic. How about a wheel loader fight?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wheel loader fight

Done in under two minutes, without the 25 minutes of vapid hype from dressed-up twits wearing sunglasses inside.

Re:The whole event felt scripted

[Somebody Is Using My]

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.

Re:Pathetic. How about a wheel loader fight?

[sysrammer]

There you go. For $200k-$2m and change you too can have a winning mech!

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