MegaBots aiming for battle between robots on which humans ride and manipulate talk about the prospects of robot fight leagues

Megabots aiming to establish a robot fighting league that realizes the battle of huge robots that a human operates on boarding is a giant robot of Suidobashi Heavy Industries'CratasToChallengeIt is a company that sometimes beat up. YouTuber's Megabots has created numerous self-made robots by engineersSimone GiertzWe invited him to our factory and talked about future prospects of the robot competition league.

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According to Giertz invited to the factory of MegaBots, MegaBots was created by GiertzAutomatic vegetable cutting machineInspired by the latest robot "Mk. III (Mark 3)" to be released soon will be remodeled. By being able to operate that robot, Mr. Giertz has a very high tension.


The cutting robot remodeled Mk. III was exhibited at the factory.


Originally you can see that it is a huge knife that is equipped with special arm in both arms.


In addition, this is a fully automatic vegetable cutting machine made by Giertz.


Before actually manipulating the robot, we asked Meg Oots of Megabots co-founders Mr. Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti.


According to Cavalcanti, the latest Mk. III is a robot developed from scratch, unlike Mk. II which was made by remodeling Mk. I. The development cost was 800,000 dollars (about 91 million yen), the control system dramatically improved than the previous model, and the new function of position control to recognize how the robot itself is moving now Also equipped.

The most difficult thing about Mk. III's design is to ensure the safety of a pilot who will board two people. Because Mk. III has more horsepower than Mk. II, it is necessary to increase safety so that the pilot never injured. Two people believe that "Mk. III believes that both safety and the fun of robot fighting can be compatible."


In addition, the two mentions also how to realize the robot fight league. In order to implement a robot competition league, other companies need to develop robots, but in that respect they will provide a technology platform developed by Megabots. We are developing a robot development environment such as various sensors and control systems by providing development kit and blueprint etc. to other companies, and it is said that companies will build environment that makes robot easily. Cavalcanti talked about future ambitions at the end, saying, "I am happy if the robot fight league that we set up will become a game someday."

You can see how Giertz is manipulating a cut robot that remodeled Mk. III from the following movie.

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Mr. Giertz will be lectured on the operation. Apparently it seems to be operated with a machine equipped with an adjustment knob, but details were not revealed.


At first we set vegetables such as watermelon and carrot.


I will cut it into two with an oversized knife.


A big washing machine also crushed this street.



In the end I finished rushing to destroy the piano excellently. Mr. Giertz was screaming all the time.


"It's fun to make, but it's as much fun to break, it's fun!" Giertz told the impression.