The U.S. and Japan are at it again, except this time, it’s a battle of superior technology. One of the leading robotics industries, MegaBots, is facing off with it’s Japanese rival, Suidobashi Heavy Industry. The topics I’ll be covering in this paper are more information about MegaBots and where they came from and how they built the mech, how they plan to make a sport out of it, and the history of Suidobashi Heavy industry. Now onto the history of MegaBots. The history of Megabots seems all uphill so far. They started out in Somerville, Massachusetts, but soon moved to San Fransisco for cheaper and bigger warehouses. A perfect fit for their mech. MegaBots announced the ‘battle’ and set up a Kickstarter page and earned more than half of it
