What just happened? MegaBots, the Boston-based company that built a 16-foot-tall fighting robot, has gone bankrupt. As such, the firm is selling the 15-ton Eagle Prime on eBay, and its current highest ...

MegaBots, the innovator of giant fighting robots and the most successful effort to date to make a giant robotic fighting league sustainable, will soon fire for bankruptcy. In anticipation of the ...

On the heels of the US victory over Japan in the World Cup finals, another showdown between the two countries has gone viral: a robot battle. Tap to watch if you're viewing on the news app. The idea ...

You may not think you need a slow moving 30,000-lb. two-seater mech, the Internet famous Eagle Prime made by Hayward, Calif.-based MegaBots, with a chainsaw hand and the odd battle scar, but hear me ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — They’ve been popularized in movies, television and video games, but giant fighting robots still haven’t left the realm of science fiction. That will soon change. Megabots Inc., ...

MegaBots is bankrupt. The Bay Area-based fighting robot startup noted in a video that “this is the end of MegaBots in its current form,” marking the occasion by selling the 15-ton Eagle Prime ‘bot on ...

It’s easy to fall down the eBay rabbit hole and start buying up your childhood (hello, 1990s comic book collection!) or throwing cash at things you never knew existed but now desperately feel the need ...

Having never build a robot of any kind, I can't say whether it's an enjoyable experience or not. What I can say, and with utter certainty, is that this massive fighting robot sure seems to bring a ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — They've been popularized in movies, television and video games, but giant fighting robots still haven't left the realm of science fiction. That will soon change. Megabots Inc., an ...

The nation's great steel hope is looking to raise funds to battle Japan's meanest robot next year in a true battle of the Pacific Rim. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...

Are you the sort of person who says to themselves “Self, 2015 is all well and good with 3D printers and smartphones, but it’s not really the future until we get giant fighting mechs?” Well, if you are ...