Two four-metre robots are on a collision course, and their makers aim to have fun, promote engineering and maybe start a new sport OAKLAND, Calif.—They’ve been popularized in movies, television and ...

Forget football or basketball, the sport of the future could be a league of giant fighting robot teams. At least that is the hope of Gui Cavalcanti, the founder of MegaBots, a company that makes jumbo ...

As far as international giant-robot fights go, it’s hardly Robot Jox – there’s no land or power at stake, only professional and national pride. Japanese robot makers Suidobashi Heavy Industry have ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - They have been popularized in movies, television and video games, but giant fighting robots still haven’t left the realm of science fiction. That will soon change. Megabots Inc., an ...

The American underdogs in what is planned to be the world's first giant robot battle have enlisted help from NASA engineers and Hollywood robotics experts in a bid to overcome their favoured Japanese ...

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ABOVE: It’s going to be a robo-battle royale! See MegaBots original “challenge” video as well as Suidobashi’s equally-hilarious reply. For anyone wondering when the future was going to stop dawdling ...

A Japanese developer of massive robots has accepted a challenge to battle from a U.S. rival. Wearing American flags as capes, MegaBots co-founders Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti issued their ...

If you love monster truck rallies, or boxing, or robots, you might want to tune into Twitch TV Tuesday night to watch two gigantic robots duke it out. It should be quite the spectacle with a ...