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Video: US and Japan to faceoff in a giant robot fighting

Shweta Sengar | Updated on: 13 February 2017, 3:26 IST

Forget human fighting championships and move on to robot fighting.

Megabot USA raised $1.8 million via a Kickstarter campaign to fund its giant robot objective. It challenged the only other giant robot maker in the world, Japan's Kuratas Mecha, for a robot fight.

Interestingly, Kuratas Mecha founder Kogoro Kurata has accepted the challenge via a video. The battle will begin in the next year.

Here's how Megabot USA challenged Japan's Kuratas Mecha:

Challenge accepted. Japan responds via a video:

The robot will be piloted by a team and will be laden with guns which will shoot paint-filled cannonballs.

First published: 30 July 2015, 5:11 IST
 
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Shweta covers Science & Technology for Catch Live at Catch News, scouring the Internet to bring readers items of interest, both serious and amusing. A foodie, photography enthusiast and globetrotter, she has also worked at The Economic Times before joining the Catch team. She studied Commerce at Kanpur University and has a PGD in Advanced Journalism from YMCA, New Delhi.