See Giant Robots Fight. US vs Japan Match On YouTube (cnbc.com) 50
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.
Wowwwwww. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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Robot sumo is much better. The robots are affordable and you program them yourself.
Re:Wowwwwww. (Score:4)
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Could they possibly have given it a more annoying presentation?
The whole event felt scripted (Score:2, Informative)
That's because it was scripted. It's about as real as a WWE fight, and about four times more boring.
Re:The whole event felt scripted (Score:4, Informative)
nomenclature (Score:1)
While mech fighting is certainly cool, these are absolutely not robots, and anyone who calls them such is worthy of being harshly admonished and/or reprehended.
Pathetic. How about a wheel loader fight? (Score:4, Funny)
Wheel loader fight [youtube.com]
Done in under two minutes, without the 25 minutes of vapid hype from dressed-up twits wearing sunglasses inside.
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Of course the dueling robots were cool too, but in a "I'm freezing to death in the mountains and I can feel the frostbite setting in" sort of cool.....
Re:Pathetic. How about a wheel loader fight? (Score:4, Funny)
There you go. For $200k-$2m and change you too can have a winning mech!
One comment from a youtuber...
"And here we see the rival males fighting for the right to mate. These battles are not deadly, but instead, a male that is pushed on his side has lost."
Skip ahead to the fighting, better than I expected (Score:3)
Haha, the first punch is ridiculously dumb, KO. Just skip everything except the fighting, there are 2 matches in the video. The first is 2 seconds long. The second is actually kinda cool, it's at least funny, they do some damage and almost kill the annoying announcers, too bad they didn't. These kinds of things would be SO much better if they didn't overhype it like it's going to be so amazing.
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This series would be much better if they took the humans out of the cockpit and had them controlled by remote control or (eventually) AI.
Once you don’t have to worry about accidently killing the driver, you can ramp up the robot violence up to something that you would expect to see on TV. Think Battlebots on a bigger scale, or the Real Steel movie.
WTF was that?! (Score:2)
I saw the giant robots... (Score:2)
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Surley not everybody was kung fu fighting.
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No, and don't call me Surley.
Robot Combat League on SyFy was better (Score:2)
I enjoyed this more, but just as scripted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re: Robot Combat League on SyFy was better (Score:2)
Not robot (Score:1)
Proper link... (Score:3)
How about a good link that skips the bullshit and goes right to the fight? https://youtu.be/Z-ouLX8Q9UM?t... [youtu.be]
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Good enough. Always go with the chainsaw. Learned that long ago in that movie about Texans.
Something's missing (Score:2)
Where was the Shining Finger?
If you want to skip through the video... (Score:3)
From the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
First fight starts at 8:32. Fight is over at the very first punch at 8:55. I use "punch" loosely, as the robot just holds an arm out and runs forward into the 2nd one, knocking it over.
Slow motion of the "punch" is at 10:26-11:00.
Next fight with another robot starts around 13:20. Drone gets knocked out of the air at 14:18. Robot-on-robot hits around 15:00, after which they pause for round 2. Battle resumes at 20:00, this time with a chainsaw attachment. Chainsaw damage starts around 21:20. But it is low-speed, not very exciting. Knock some shit over at 22:04, and the whole thing ends at 22:30.
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They wern't actually fighting (Score:2)
The biggest problem is they wern't actually fighting each other. They wern't actually trying to damage the other guy, and it just felt fake as hell, because it was. One of the highlights was a robot pushing over a stack of cars, or a lighting rig, seriously?
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I don't know about Megabots but Kuratas actually sells their robots on Amazon for about 1 million dollars.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%B... [amazon.co.jp]
I can see them renting their robots for various shows, I think Megabots and Kuratas both do this. The duel is just advertisement.
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Status Quo (Score:2)
The more it evolves the more it stays the same. Shinji still isn't going to get to have sex with Asuka.
Somewhat Expected but Even Worse! (Score:2)
To be honest, I didn't have much faith in it as soon as they announced that the Bots would be piloted by live humans. It right away means that they won't be fighting to destruction or using any weapons that could potentially kill the pilot for obvious reasons. Unfortunately it also means it would probably be boring! It probably also didn't help that they had announcers who were cheering property damage over actual fighting. (Imagine boxers punching the ring and environment instead of each other!) I actu