The guys at MegaBots - a Boston-based startup devoted to the art of robot combat - challenged, completely out of the blue, their counterpart the Suidobashi Heavy Industry of Japan to a robot duel by way of YouTube:
"The MegaBots team plans to show up to the fight with its Mark II robot, a 15-foot-tall (4.6 meters), manually piloted bot that can walk around and shoot supersized paintballs. Suidobashi's bot, named Kuratas, is a tad smaller at 13 feet (4 meters) tall, but it packs a more lethal punch with its onboard arsenal of rapid-fire BB guns."
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0707/It-s-on-Japan-accepts-giant-robot-duel-challenge-from-US
It only took days for the guys at Suidobashi Heavy Industry to make a response and accept the challenge:
In the video, Suidobashi CEO/Creator/Founder Kogoro Kurata says:
"Just building something huge and sticking guns on it. It's Super American." - said refering to MegoBot's Mark II robot.
"We can't let another country win this. Giant robots are Japanese culture." "...we really need... meele combat... I want to punch them to scrap and knock them down to do it" added Kurata before taking the challenge from the US based team
MegaBots challenged Suidobashi for a robot fight within a year in a place of Suidobashi's choosing.
Let the robot wars begin!
1) Do you think that the outcome of this challenge could have international implications?
2) Could this venture somehow mark the next step on weaponization of robots towards war applications?
3) Will this just be a simple activity that could demonstrate human technological craft? Just fun, learning, and metal destruction?
4) Will this moment be remembered by future generations of self-aware robots as one of the earliest moments in which humans abused them for fun and amuzement as robot cock fights?
Discuss.
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