I saw a MegaBot at New York City's Comic Con! Just what is a MegaBot? A MegaBot is an internally piloted robot that is 15 feet tall and weighs 15,000 pounds. It seats a team of two (a driver and a gunner). It has massive pneumatic weapons for arms and fights against other MegaBots. They fire special paint-filled ammunition, shooting at speeds of more than 120 miles per hour. The more damage inflicted results in weapons getting jammed, limbs flying off the robots body (not yours!) resulting in the robot shutting down.
The idea to build MegaBots started in the childhood dreams of each founder. However, the skills, means and opportunity to accomplish those goals didn’t present themselves until 2012 when Andrew Stroup and Gui Cavalcanti met as competitors on the Discovery Channel reality television show The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius, an intense elimination-style engineering competition show. Starting on the show and continuing into the following year, Andrew and Gui spent countless hours designing and prototyping robotic components. After completing research and development, Andrew and Gui recruited Matt Oehrlein, an unrivaled controls engineer from the hacker/makerspace community. With these complementary skill sets and areas of expertise, MegaBots, Inc., accelerated to full throttle to bring these battling behemoths to life (from Megabots Press Kit).
These creators of the MegaBots remind me of Voltron or, as the younger generation would recognize, Power Rangers. They are all separate individuals with a set of skills but once they are grouped together they formed a huge battle machine called the MegaBot!
MegaBots, Inc has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to gather support for the first-ever giant robot battle league!
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