USA vs Japan round 2: Japan's Suidobashi Heavy Industry accepts challenge from MegaBots to have a gi
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[QUOTE]The US Women's soccer team may have won the World Cup against Japan on Sunday, but that doesn't mean the battle between the countries is over.Japan's Suidobashi Heavy Industry, a company that has developed a giant robot, has accepted a challenge from American-based giant robot team MegaBots to engage in a full-on fight. The acceptance was posted to YouTube by the Suidobashi team and included its fair share of fighting words.
The duel is set against the backdrop of a dramatic end on Sunday to the FIFA World Cup, which pitted the US Women's team against Japan's Women's team. The US won, scoring five goals to Japan's two.
"My reaction? Come on, guys, make it cooler," Suidobashi founder and CEO Kogoro Kurata [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u8mheM2Hrg&feature=youtu.be"]said[/URL] in a YouTube video posted to the site on Sunday. "Just building something huge and sticking guns on it -- it's...Super American."
Kurata's playful comments came after [URL="http://www.cnet.com/news/america-challenges-japan-to-real-life-battle-of-giant-robots/"]MegaBots on July 2 issued a challenge to Suidobashi[/URL] to engage in a real-life giant robot battle. The MegaBots pugilist is called Mark 2, weighs six tons, and is piloted by a team of two. The Mark 2 fires three-pound paint cannonballs up to 100 miles per hour. The Suidobashi Kuratas weighs 4.5 tons, making it a bit more agile. However, it comes with a pair of Gatling guns, coupled with an advanced targeting system and heads-up display.
In its own video, MegaBots called the fight a "duel," and said that it hoped to host the event in one year. The team called on Suidobashi to name the battleground.
The giant robot challenge will see the countries against each other again -- only this time, it's a must-win, says Kurata.
"We can't let another country win this," he said in the YouTube video. "Giant robots are Japanese culture."[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.cnet.com/news/japan-responds-to-giant-robot-duel-lets-do-it/[/URL]
Fuck yes
[editline]7th July 2015[/editline]
This:
[IMG]http://images.freshnessmag.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/08/kuratas-by-suidobashi-heavy-industry-01.jpg[/IMG]
vs this:
[IMG]http://i0.wp.com/makerfaire.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/MegaBot_and_CEO_of_MegaBots_Inc.jpg[/IMG]
LET THE GAMES BEGIn !
The Japanese want to actually beat each other up while the American robot fires like 1 foot wide paintballs
100 bucks on America.
[B]LET THE WARS BEGIN![/B]
[QUOTE]"Just building something huge and sticking guns on it -- it's...Super American."[/QUOTE]
you're goddamn right it is
I want commentators and a stadium. Or the Robot Wars arena
The Japanese bot looks amazing, until you get to that piddly little shooter. We shoot rounds bigger than that entire gun out of ours. U-S-A!
Imagine if this is how the mech arms race begins.
Give it 10 years we'll have Armored Core level shit.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39MIhqluo2E[/media]
Oh, frig, uh... I think we might be in over our heads with this one.
But if we [i]do[/i] win, Japan, then [i]you[/i] have to make From Software give us Metal Wolf Chaos. Deal?
These robots are pointless and stupid and any kind of competition they will stand in will be boring and embarrassing to both the parties involved as well as the observers.
[quote]"Just building something huge and sticking guns on it -- it's...Super American."[/quote]
[I]you say that like its a bad thing you pinko hippie communist[/I]
come at us with your broody sad katana wielding anime bots japan and SEE WHAT HAPPENS
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48134849]These robots are pointless and stupid and any kind of competition they will stand in will be boring and embarrassing to both the parties involved as well as the observers.[/QUOTE]
You must be wild at parties.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48134849]These robots are pointless and stupid and any kind of competition they will stand in will be boring and embarrassing to both the parties involved as well as the observers.[/QUOTE]
you're just upset because even your best czechnology cannot produce amazing fighting robots
[QUOTE=Timebomb575;48134893]you're just upset because even your best czechnology cannot produce amazing fighting robots[/QUOTE]
To be fair, it will probably be very anticlimactic. These things will trundle out in a parking lot somewhere and awkwardly spray some paint on each other. If you're expecting anything more, best reel in your expectations.
now just get Craig Charles to commentate and we have international life-sized Robot Wars.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohp_nmI_TFA[/media]
It better have a commercial like this.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;48134916]To be fair, it will probably be very anticlimactic. These things will trundle out in a parking lot somewhere and awkwardly spray some paint on each other. If you're expecting anything more, best reel in your expectations.[/QUOTE]
It may be dangerous, but I'd be game for ejector seats in these things (i.e. After a certain damage threshold by sensors on the hull, the pilots get ejected).
[I]It'd be very anti-anti-climatic.[/I]
We need the Battlebots announcers for this. Those guys are hilarious
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;48134916]To be fair, it will probably be very anticlimactic. These things will trundle out in a parking lot somewhere and awkwardly spray some paint on each other. If you're expecting anything more, best reel in your expectations.[/QUOTE]
until they can actually walk they are pretty much just big paintball tanks with articulated weapons, yeah
in fact it'd probably be cooler to see them participate in an actual large scale paintball battle with dudes running around on the ground than a 1v1 duel
[QUOTE=EcksDee;48134832]Imagine if this is how the mech arms race begins.
Give it 10 years we'll have Armored Core level shit.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39MIhqluo2E[/media][/QUOTE]
That's a funny way to say Battlemechs.
[t]http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12634050/images/1288554648146.jpg[/t]
I would love for there to be an international league to spring out of this, like a fusion of BattleBots and Gundam.
[QUOTE=Timebomb575;48134965]until they can actually walk they are pretty much just big paintball tanks with articulated weapons, yeah
in fact it'd probably be cooler to see them participate in an actual large scale paintball battle with dudes running around on the ground than a 1v1 duel[/QUOTE]
Sounds like Titanfall.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;48134916]To be fair, it will probably be very anticlimactic. These things will trundle out in a parking lot somewhere and awkwardly spray some paint on each other. If you're expecting anything more, best reel in your expectations.[/QUOTE]
yeah but who cares it's a fucking [I][B]ROBOT FIGHT[/B][/I]
Also I want to see a Robotic Royal Rumble. 20 bots in one arena, last one standing wins.
If only the Japanese bot had a rocket launcher on the left hand and the gatling on the right, it'd be a full on clone on the sentry bots from Fallout.
[img]http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/8/8d/Fo3BS_Enclave_sentry_bot.png/revision/latest?cb=20110125165034[/img]
[QUOTE=Aspen;48134880]You must be wild at parties.[/QUOTE]
Actually, yes. Because I can distinguish actual entertainment from a spergy nerd dream. Battlebots are dumb but lead to practical and functional designs that are fun to watch. Actual AI robot competitions are usually riddled with hilariously unreliable and dysfunctional designs, but it's fun to watch them for the fuckups as well as actual technological progress (see the The 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge).
These things are are trying to recreate completely pointless designs done by somebody who never understood basic engineering nor combat, and didn't even have to, because it was for a videogame.
If there's any way of panning these things in positive light, it's that of some sort of extended cosplay, in which case, hooray for the newest generation of LARPing.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48134998]Actually, yes. Because I can distinguish actual entertainment from a spergy nerd dream. Battlebots are dumb but lead to practical and functional designs that are fun to watch. Actual AI robot competitions are usually riddled with hilariously unreliable and dysfunctional designs, but it's fun to watch them for the fuckups as well as actual technological progress (see the The 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge).
These things are are trying to recreate completely pointless designs done by somebody who never understood basic engineering nor combat, and didn't even have to, because it was for a videogame.
If there's any way of panning these things in positive light, it's that of some sort of extended cosplay, in which case, hooray for the newest generation of LARPing.[/QUOTE]
You, actually can't know that. Actually most people can't because we're A. Not military experts and B. Not Engineers.
But you can sit there and sperg out over AI that could just as easily end us all for fucking stamp collecting.
lol this is absurd
but so, so awesome
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48134998]Actually, yes. Because I can distinguish actual entertainment from a spergy nerd dream. Battlebots are dumb but lead to practical and functional designs that are fun to watch. Actual AI robot competitions are usually riddled with hilariously unreliable and dysfunctional designs, but it's fun to watch them for the fuckups as well as actual technological progress (see the The 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge).
These things are are trying to recreate completely pointless designs done by somebody who never understood basic engineering nor combat, and didn't even have to, because it was for a videogame.
If there's any way of panning these things in positive light, it's that of some sort of extended cosplay, in which case, hooray for the newest generation of LARPing.[/QUOTE]
Cool it, Colonel Killjoy.
[QUOTE=Swilly;48135006]You, actually can't know that. Actually most people can't because we're A. Not military experts and B. Not Engineers.
But you can sit there and sperg out over AI that could just as easily end us all for fucking stamp collecting.[/QUOTE]
Well I actually do have enough engineering background to tell you these things are a worthless pile of trash engineering wise, and you can ask anybody who ever had a hand in actual vehicular combat and they will tell you nothing like this is ever going to work.
Mechs like this are the fedora of armoured warfare.
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