Anyone remember the crowd sourced funding effort to build a giant fighting robot from a few years back? The guys were successful in building their robot and are streaming the first battle tonight. In reading the specs of the robot, this caught my eye.
Behold. Eagle Prime, America's entrant into the Giant Robot Duel, in its first-ever live-fire combat trial. Eagle Prime is the first MK3-class MegaBot from MegaBots, Inc. It weighs in at 12 tons, stands 16 feet tall, seats two, is powered by a 430 horsepower V8 LS3 engine, and costs a cool $2.5M. Cupholders come standard. In all it's glory, science fiction just became reality.
Definitely a monumental waste of money, but I'll probably be watching the streamed fight in a few hours. If you want to watch, it's streaming on the Twitch site at 10pm eastern.
