Move over monster trucks. Fighting giant robots plan to battle in arenas and stadiums in the future.
According to the Associated Press (AP), Oakland, California-based Megabots Inc. built a 15-foot robot called the Mark II and challenged Tokyo-based Suidobashi Heavy Industries, creator of the 13-foot Kuratas robot, to a battle. Suidobashi accepted the challenge, though a date and location have yet to be determined.
Still, Megabots wants to make robot battles a recurring event.
“The Megabots founders envision a sports league where teams from around the world build huge humanoid robots that throw each other down in stadiums filled with screaming fans,” Terence Chea reported for AP.
No matter the outcome, the real winners will be the fans.
“Everyone wins as long as there is robot carnage,” Megabots co-founder Matt Oehrlein, an electrical engineer, told Chea. “People want to see these things fight. They want to see them punch each other, they want to see them ripped apart and they want to be entertained.”
Check out the video below to see the Mark II robot.
(Image: Ariel Waldman/Creative Commons)
