A little over a year ago, nearly 8,000 extremely patriotic robot enthusiasts pledged nearly $555,000 to help American MegaBots and its Mk.II robot defeat Japan’s Kuratas robot in their upcoming duel.

Forget Samsung's Galaxy S8 vs. the tenth-anniversary iPhone! Who cares about a nuanced discussion comparing the necessity for big data-driven surveillance and the importance of privacy and strong ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. MegaBots Inc. lit up ...

It began two years ago when MegaBots co-founders Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti donned American flags as capes and challenged Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a giant robot duel in a YouTube video ...

Team USA is gearing up to go against Japan in an epic giant robot duel next year. San Francisco-based robotics company MegaBots just launched its Kickstarter page to gather $1.5 million in order to ...

Who's ready for a robot rumble? Back in 2015, we told you about MegaBots, a team of American engineers building a piloted combat robot to battle Kuratas, a 13-foot mech built by Japanese company ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. “Giant. Robot. Duel.” — three words that shook up the internet back in 2015, when an American ...

Are you ready for the world's first giant robot fight? (If your answer to that was "No," who even are you?) We've been waiting for a date for the MegaBots vs. Suidobashi duel, and now it's finally ...

It's on. The highly anticipated giant robot fight between the U.S.-based robotics company MegaBots and Japan's Suidobashi will be available for viewing Tuesday. MegaBots will be releasing footage of ...

Two years of waiting for the "world's first" giant robot duel ended on Tuesday in a slow yet dramatic battle. The American challengers MegaBots surprised viewers by showing up with not one, but two ...