As far as international giant-robot fights go, it’s hardly Robot Jox – there’s no land or power at stake, only professional and national pride. Japanese robot makers Suidobashi Heavy Industry have ...

A Japanese developer of massive robots has accepted a challenge to battle from a U.S. rival. Wearing American flags as capes, MegaBots co-founders Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti issued their ...

Two four-metre robots are on a collision course, and their makers aim to have fun, promote engineering and maybe start a new sport OAKLAND, Calif.—They’ve been popularized in movies, television and ...

Forget football or basketball, the sport of the future could be a league of giant fighting robot teams. At least that is the hope of Gui Cavalcanti, the founder of MegaBots, a company that makes jumbo ...

The American underdogs in what is planned to be the world's first giant robot battle have enlisted help from NASA engineers and Hollywood robotics experts in a bid to overcome their favoured Japanese ...

ABOVE: It’s going to be a robo-battle royale! See MegaBots original “challenge” video as well as Suidobashi’s equally-hilarious reply. For anyone wondering when the future was going to stop dawdling ...

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A U.S.-based robotics company has thrown down the metallic gauntlet and goaded a Japanese competitor into a heavy metal battle of mechanical proportions. "Suidobashi, we have a giant robot, you have a ...

Finally, there's a crowdfunding campaign for people who want to watch giant robots fight to the death. MegaBots Inc. — a Boston-based company that builds huge, human-operated, fighting robots — ...

A startup in the United States has challenged a Japanese robot manufacturer to the world's first-ever giant robot duel in hopes to turn what is now a hobby into a sport. MegaBots Inc., based in ...

We live in an age where a giant robot movie doesn’t seem all that special. Thanks to over a decade of Transformers movies and the excellent Pacific Rim, the novelty of getting a giant robot movie that ...

Every second Saturday, a collection of otherwise sensible adults strap on robot costumes built from empty boxes and tin foil, swinging cardboard swords and plastic axes, bashing each other in a clumsy ...