A group called MegaBot Inc. is attempting to make the robot fighting league we’ve always dreamed about into a reality. They’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise nearly $2 million to design and build “5-foot-tall, 15,000-pound, walking humanoid combat robots with giant, modular pneumatic cannons for arms.” Read the last part of that sentence again. Now read this description of what the tournament will look like: “A driver-and-gunner team pilot each MegaBot in a battle against other MegaBots, vehicles, and a variety of other defenses and obstacles in live-action combat – the likes of which the world has only dreamed of through video games and movies.”
At the moment, the MegaBot team is no where near their goal (they’ve raised about $20,000 so far), so if they want to actually go through with their plans of hosting an “epic arena combat” tournament by May 2016, we’re all going to need to start doing our part very soon …