USA challenges Japan to giant robot duel

[sean miguel]

Giant robots, Japan - that's their forte right? Who cares? We beat the Russians at hockey once.

Japan and America agree to put giant fighting robots into battle

Japan's Suidobashi accepts MegaBots' challenge of a duel, paving the way for robot wars on a grand scale

By James Titcomb

3:32PM BST 06 Jul 2015



It's the moment we've all been waiting for: two giant fighting robots - one Japanese and one American - will square off in a melee one year from now.

That is, if the robots' two owners keep their word.

Last week, MegaBots, an American engineering company, challenged Japan's Suidobashi Heavy Industry to a duel.

The battle would pitch the 12,000 lbs (850-stone) MegaBots Mark II against Suidobashi's Kuratas, which weighs 9,000 lbs.

Now, Suidobashi has responded, saying it accepts the challenge - on one condition.

Kogor Kurata, Suidobashi's founder and chief executive, posted a response on YouTube, saying his robot would fight, as long as the fight was hand-to-hand.

"Just building something huge and sticking guns on it. It's... super American," he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...to-put-giant-fighting-robots-into-battle.html


It's gonna be a beatdown of Women's World Cup Soccer proportions.

 

[feller469]

"Pacific Rim"is coming true.

 

[knowone]

Does either one transform into a Toyota Supra or Chevy Camaro?

 

[D-rock]

It's all fun and games and gives hope for the future of this type of stuff until somebody realized what a bitch the Square-Cube Law is. Stupid reality. :1orglaugh

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Hey Japan, ever had your shit pushed in? Raise your rising sun in the air for daddy!

 

[sean miguel]

It's all fun and games and gives hope for the future of this type of stuff until somebody realized what a bitch the Square-Cube Law is. Stupid reality. :1orglaugh

The bigger they are ...

Yeah, as cool as it would be, I don't see a practical battlefield application for these or their successors. Unless they were also airborne platforms or otherwise highly mobile, they'd be sitting ducks for anything that packs a wallop. When one of those things gets knocked on it's ass, then what? The future (and present) of warfare is smaller unmanned drones with some 20-year-old using an xbox controller from an Air Force base in Tampa, or more unsettling, A.I. controlled.

 

[ChuckFaze]

I don't know that it'd be a fair fight given the MegaBots' weight advantage. 12,000 pounds vs. 9,000 pounds. That's like the entire weight of a car of an advantage. That would be like a Middle Weight Boxer going up against a Heavy Weight Boxer. The MegaBot could just rush the smaller Kuratas and push him and push him and keep pushing him until he crushes him up against a wall or pushes him onto a freeway or something. :rofl2:

 

[ChuckFaze]

Of course, if the MegaBot is just huge, but slow and clumsy, then this could get embarrassing. :eek: