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Dorsum in 2022, American startup MegaBots Inc challenged Japanese company Suidobashi to a Giant Robot Duel–a knock-down dragout, totally-not-staged fight betwixt the US and Japanese robot teams. On Tuesday dark, the final fight went down. Here's the breakup, starting with Round i:

Iron Glory (MK2) is fifteen feet alpine, weighs six tons, has a 22-pes wingspan at total extension, a top speed of 2.5 miles per hour, a 24 horsepower engine, and is armed with a missile launcher and a six-inch cannon that fires iii-pound paintballs. Iron Glory is described as favoring a "Western" combat style, with an accent on altitude and ranged weaponry.

IronGlory

The Japanese robot, in dissimilarity, favors melee combat. Kuratas measures thirteen.v feet high, weighs half-dozen.5 tons, has a 20-foot wingspan, a maximum speed of 18 miles per hour, an 87 horsepower engine, an articulating hand, an 18mm submachine gun, and a600-pound punching arm. Given the weight of the robot behind the arm, and the speed at which Kuratas can travel, any maximum velocity impact event could spell serious trouble for the American robot.

And, indeed, the first round isn't fifty-fifty shut. Kuratas makes a beeline for Iron Glory, laughs off a single shot from the latter's paintball cannon–seriously, who thought a three-pound paintball trounce was going to hurt a 6.5-ton robot, unless fired at railgun velocities?–and knocks MegaBots kickoff robot squarely on its ass. Later on slo-mo analysis shows that the paintgun shell appears to have broken in the barrel, not that it would've made much difference. Given the fact that Kuratas was moving while Atomic number 26 Glory wasn't, IG was going downward.

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I-Punch Bot?

"This was a stunning defeat for Squad Megabots," the announcer, erm, announces. Only with no one injure, it's all in good fun and the best robot won, right? Well, not exactly. Because Team MegaBots, plural, brought two robots to the fight. One was Iron Glory, and the other, Eagle Prime.

EaglePrime

Eagle Prime is xvi-feet tall, weighs in at 12 tons, has a twoscore-foot wingspan, a pinnacle speed of 10mph, and a 430 horsepower engine. Armaments include a four-foot chainsword, a logging grapple, and a double-barreled cannon that tin fire far more than paint-rounds per minute.

From this bespeak, the fight actually gets interesting, then nosotros'll drop the video in here, time-coded to this segment. If you desire to sentry from the start, you tin can always rewind. We'll hash out the terminal lucifer'south results afterwards this bespeak, so don't scroll much beneath the video if you lot want to avoid the word. If the video doesn't pick up at the appropriate spot, look for timecode 13:eighteen.

An Official Draw

Ultimately, Kuratas falls to Hawkeye Prime in Round 3 afterwards Round two is declared a draw. That leaves the match an official tie–the Japanese team wins Round one with a i-shot TKO, the teams necktie in Circular ii, and Round 3 gives the U.s.a.-based Megabots a victory.

We'd argue the Japanese squad actually did a meliorate job of edifice a single robot with a core set of strengths, compared with the Megabots' team two-shot project. Iron Glory was utterly outclassed past Kuratas, while Eagle Prime number needed ii rounds to have out its Japanese rival. It's difficult non to think that Eagle Prime wasn't specifically designed to counter Kuratas' strengths. While at that place's zilch specifically wrong with that, it's as well not entirely fair to give ane squad two robots, and the other squad just one.

Granted, in an bodily combat scenario, we'd bet on distance weapons over killer melee shots. But we'd too argue that in this specific instance, the Japanese did a amend job of anticipating what the superior solution would be. Eagle Prime ultimately wins by being a stronger melee robot, as opposed to a boot-ass demonstration of a longer-altitude arms vehicle.

What does this prove virtually life, the universe, and our place in it? Non much. But the Honest Trailer from Pacific Rim explains a lot of my thoughts on the topic. Simply replace 1 giant monster with a different giant robot.