Errymath: Megabot II

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The Megabot
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<span id="ext-gen57" style="font-size: 1.2em;">It could be an amazing mechanical matchup. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">US inventors have revealed the Megabot II, a fifteen foot tall robot with paint cannons for arms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They have issued a challenge to Kuratas, a Japanese giant robot, to take it on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Born
 of the fires of American innovation, we've built the Megapot II, 
America's first fully functioning piloted robot,' says its creators in a
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'And because we're American, we've added really, really big guns.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, them team admit they were beated to the punch by their Japanese counterparts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The mark II isn't the first fighting robot in the world, Kuratas beat us to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We have a giant robot, you have a giant robot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'You know what that means - we challenge you to a duel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Name your battlefiend, and in one year, we fight.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Megabot was originally conceived as a Kickstarter project to create a robot fighting league.  </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We're
 bringing video games and science fiction to life in the form of 
internally piloted giant fighting robots,' Gui Cavalcanti, co-founder of
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">15-foot-tall,
 15,000-pound, walking humanoid combat robots with giant, modular 
pneumatic cannons for arms would be controlled by a team of two, a 
driver and a gunner, and feature breakaway armour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It would fire three-pound, paint-filled cannonballs fired at 120 mph.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'As 
projectiles hit their targets, armour plates shatter and explode, and 
computers tally critical hits to the robot's limbs and torso. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'As
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seize, weapons start to jam, and after enough damage, limbs are 
completely blown off. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The last MegaBot standing wins!'</span></div>
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 <table class="mol-table" style="width: 100%px;">                             <caption class="wocc">KURATAS VS MEGABOT - HOW THEY STACK UP </caption><tbody>
<tr><th> </th><th> MEGABOT II</th>                                                                                                                                <th>KURATAS </th>                                                                                       </tr>
<tr>                                                                                               <td> Cost</td><td> not for sale</td>                                                                                                                                <td>$1million</td>                                                                                       </tr>
<tr><td> Height</td><td> 15 feet</td><td> 12 feet</td></tr>
<tr><td> Weight</td><td> 15,000lbs</td><td> 8,000lbs</td></tr>
<tr><td> Operators</td><td> two</td><td> one - or remote control</td></tr>
<tr><td>Weapons </td><td> Painball gun</td><td> BB bullet gatling gun & bottle rockets</td></tr>
<tr><td> Locomotion</td><td> Tank Tracks</td><td> Four wheels</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"> All specifications TBC</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
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selling the 13ft (four metre) mechanical suit on Amazon for $1 million 
(£659,000). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dubbed Kuratas, the five-ton, four-wheeled device was the brainchild of inventor Kogora Kurata from Japan's Kanto region.<span class="mol-style-bold"> </span></span></div>
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The Megabot has two operators, a driver and a weapons specialist</div>
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Kuratas has
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It comes in 16 colours, including black and pink.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It
 seemed unlikely that anyone would develop giant robots however long I 
waited. And so I thought, I might as well make one myself - that's how 
it started,' Kurata said in an interview with <a class="" href="http://www.zoomin.tv/site/index.cfm" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Zoomin.TV</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kuratas
 can be operated using a 'Master-Slave system' where users control the 
robot's movements from outside using any device with a 3G network.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Overall,
 the robot has around 30 hydraulic joints which the pilot moves using 
motion control. It comes in 16 colours, including black and pink.</span></div>
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It can also be fitted with a 
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Users can also step inside the suit to control its movements in the same way as Iron Man (pictured)</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Currently Kuratas is not capable of walking, but is able to drive at 6mph (10 km/h) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It
 can also be fitted with a futuristic weapons system, including a gun 
capable of shooting 6,000 BB bullets a minute, which fires when the 
pilot smiles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Automatic alignment allows you to lock on your enemy target. Kuratas will not allow any targets to escape,' the company writes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'With the alignment set appropriately the system will fire BBs when the pilot smiles.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Realising
 that there may be a flaw with this system of opening fire, a video 
warns the pilot against smiling too much while operating the Kuratas 
weaponry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, there is another major caveat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The robot is advertised as a kit, which means whoever buys it will also have to put it together.</span></div>
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Dubbed Kuratas, the five-ton, 
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Revealed the Megabot II challenge to Kuratas, a Japanese giant robot

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