Team America is ready to go. MegaBots, Inc released a hype-tastic video this morning of its final, combat-ready, 16-foot-tall Eagle Prime machine, and announced it's ready to take on the Japanese ...

Giant robot startup MegaBots Inc. just raised $2.4 million in seed funding to make the glorious spectacle of giant robot fighting to the death into reality. Indeed, they want to make it into an actual ...

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 ...

Last September, MegaBots Inc. raised over $550,000 on Kickstarter to upgrade its giant, piloted robot –the Mark II– with hydraulics and heavy armor plating in preparation for a metal-bending showdown ...

The world’s first giant robot fight ended in a Tuesday broadcast with the United States’ MegaBots team defeating Suidobashi from Japan. It was a stunning display that’s been described by organizers as ...

One man’s 12-ton, 16-foot-tall fighting robot is another man’s treasure. Eagle Prime, the crown jewel of MegaBots Inc.’s fleet of sci-fi-inspired piloted robots, is being sold on eBay with bids ...

While drones and batmobiles might be making waves at CES 2016 in Last Vegas, another type of robot is vying for a place in the sun — or at least in the robo ring. MegaBots, Inc., an Oakland-based firm ...

It was the end of an era on Jan. 2 as a semi truck pulled into Oakland to pick up Eagle Prime, one of the two giant fighting robots built by Matt Oehrlein, Gui Cavalcanti, and a team of engineers at ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. MegaBots Inc. lit up ...

If you were one of the regular watchers of the British show Robot Wars, prepare to never look at those rat-sized pathetic metal contraptions with the same admiration as before ever again. The idea of ...

While the 2011 movie Real Steel was widely panned during its release, the movie about a robot fighting league might have inadvertently predicted the future.Megabots, Inc., a business specializing in ...