At first glance, you might mistake this enormous robot for a character from the latest Transformers blockbuster.
But, the 16 foot (five meter) tall machine is an American robot called Eagle Prime that is now ready to take on Japan’s Kurata robot in the Megabots Giant Robot Dual league.
An incredible video shows the Eagle Prime in action ahead of the dual – which will be the world’s first giant robot battle – taking place tomorrow, Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 at 7pm PST (10pm EST).
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At first glance, you might mistake this enormous robot for a character from the latest Transformers blockbuster. But the 16 foot (five meter) tall machine is a robot called Eagle Prime that is ready to take on Japan in the Megabots Giant Robot Dual league
The Eagle Prime was created by San Francisco-based MegaBots, who set up the Giant Robot Dual league in 2015.
The battle can be viewed on Twitch tomorrow night.
On its website, MegaBots said: ‘MegaBots uses cutting-edge robotics technology to create the giant piloted fighting robots of science fiction, videogames and movies.
‘These robots fight in epic-scale arena combat the likes of which the world has never seen before.’
The Eagle Prime stands at 16 feet (five meters tall), weighs 12 tons, and has 430 horsepower.
A human operator sits within the ‘head’ of the humanoid robot, controlling its movements.
Despite its enormous size, Eagle Prime is faster than you might think.
In the video, the enormous robot can be seen opening giant garage doors, quickly manouvering corners, demolishing piles of barrels and even blasting targets with its paintball cannon.
MegaBots said: ‘As the robots battle, armour panels shear off and litter the field, smoke and sparks pour out of the chassis, massive robotic limbs tear off, and robots crumple to the ground until only one is left standing.’
In 2015, MegaBots challenged Japan to a giant robot dual, and a team of experts from the country quickly accepted.
Japan’s robot is called Kurata.
In 2015, the team revealed an early version of the robot, that included a gun capable of shooting 6,000 BB bullets a minute.
But since, the Japanese team has not released any information or images of the machine that will take part in the dual against the US.
The Eagle Prime robot stands at 16 feet (five meters tall), weighs 12 tons, and has 430 horsepower
A human operator sits within the ‘head’ of the humanoid robot, controlling its movements during the battle
In May, Chinese robotics company GREATMETAL also announced that it too was joining the battle, unveiling its massive ‘Monkey King’ robot to take on the US and Japan.
The quadrupedal, single-seat machine takes on the form of a monkey and weighs more than 8,000 pounds (four tonnes) – and a video has suggested that the robot is equipped with a rotating head.
The Monkey King, however, will not be included in this year’s battle.
The enormous robots have several cameras on the exterior, allowing the human controller inside to change its movements
As the robots battle, armor panels shear off and litter the field, smoke and sparks pour out of the chassis, massive robotic limbs tear off, and robots crumple to the ground until only one is left standing
The Eagle Prime robot looks very similar to many of the machines featured in the Transformers blockbusters