I am kinda disappointed in Megabots development so far

in giantrobots •  8 years ago 

No Steemians, there are no special bots on the site called Megabots!

In case you haven't heard of it, an American company called Megabots Inc challenged Japan’s Suidoboshi Heavy Industry's robot called KURATAS. Here is the "Challenge" video.

The video started trending on Reddit and caught a lot of attention, so they went for a "season 1" trailer to hype everyone up.

This is going to be awesome, was my first thought after watching it. Later it was announced that the date for the epic battle of the two was set for August this year.

Here is a quick look at the Japanese Robot KURATAS, bear in mind though that this Robot is over four years old so I expect it to have gotten a few upgrades since then, especially after the challenge!


A few days ago this video was uploaded to Youtube demonstrating the Megabot, looking as American as you could imagine!


I don't know about you, but I've seen angry children hit harder than that.

Who would your money be on? Maybe we could open up a prediction post and see who the community would vote on? ;)

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The movements are just to slow to be realistic or do any real damage! The Japanese robot seems like it would have the upper-hand. Its a lot more agile and swift.

I agree with you it kind of is a disappointment. I would predict a whole lot of slow movements with virtually no damage done. Maybe one potentially getting knocked over, resulting in the win for the one left standing. I think we are out matched.

This post was entertaining!

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Trailer looks so good... the real video of the robot not so much :D

But hey, I still want to see some fights!

The biggest fight for the robot will be to get to the battle location.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

haha!

Do you know Battlebots acidyo?

Yeah, that's 10x more entertaining than this Megabot seems to be right now. :P

so the left hand just sitting there doing nothing ? hehe! they just could make the arm hitting vertical in high speed ! instead of horizontal in super slow motion !

I would call that prototype status. Remember a couple years back when they had to put all kinds of hardware on a car to make it drive by itself and now thx to Elon Musk they soon will be an every day thing? Remember this post and in 5-10 years we will think, o wow, that evolved fast

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Giant robot duel? I'm in. Fun fact: When I was very young Transformers hadn't been invented yet, instead there was something called Gobots. Nobody remembers GoBots these days and they shouldn't..... because they weren't as cool as Transformers but they did exist and they seemed quite similar to these Megabots. I'll definitely be looking forward to this one.

lol :D never heard of Gobots.

I remember watching a Transformer animation series at one point, not sure what that was called but it wasn't cartoonish drawn. Hmm.

I would truly pay$$ to see these "bots" throw down..

I'm kind of disappointed that I don't get to drive one.

I'm not, lol, it seemed sooo slow. :P

If there's one thing I know about the Asian community, it's that they know how to strap a couple turbo chargers on anything and make it go faster.

Nice! Did you get to this through Mechwarrior Online, or just stumble upon it?

They have a video of it chopping stuff with a gigantic knife - that seemed pretty impressive.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

No haven't heard of that site, stumbled on it on Reddit.

Cool, will take a look if I find it!

Giant knives- giant robot.

What could go wrong? ;)

"meh" :D

Apparently I won the #2 price. Thanks so much! Got my love now :)

amazing @acidyo

The robots do look pretty much......ok-ish. Would have prefered a more transformers or gundam style look :)

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

my first thought ... this is gonna be awesome .. but after i watched the videos.. kinda dissapointing..

Looking pretty good but disappointed after video watched.

Ja, en amerikansk robot, kraftigt långsam och inte vig robot. Det kan ses att det är svårt att ge varje rörelse. I allmänhet skulle det vara intressant att titta på den utmaning som robotar. Min son är intresserad av sådana robotar))

rs and upvote for you....