{"id":16680,"date":"2015-08-25T14:16:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T21:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/giant-battle-bot-could-get-makeover-ahead-of-epic-duel"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:50","slug":"giant-battle-bot-could-get-makeover-ahead-of-epic-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/giant-battle-bot-could-get-makeover-ahead-of-epic-duel","title":{"rendered":"Giant \u2018Battle Bot\u2019 Could Get Makeover Ahead of Epic Duel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-battle-bot-could-get-makeover-ahead-of-epic-duel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s a crowdfunding campaign for people who want to watch giant robots fight to the death.<\/p>\n<p>MegaBots Inc. \u2014 a Boston-based company that builds huge, human-operated, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/40582-military-machine-gun-robots.html\">fighting robots<\/a> \u2014 launched a Kickstarter campaign today (Aug. 19) to raise money to develop a huge, gun-toting robot, in preparation for an upcoming \u201cduel\u201d with a similar \u201cbattle bot\u201d from Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign has already drawn in nearly $200,000 of the requested $500,000, and robot fans have until Sept. 18 to contribute funds. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/51909-megabots-battle-robot-photos.html\">See photos of MegaBots\u2019 massive \u201cbattle bot\u201d<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/51918-megabots-fighting-robot-kickstarter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, there\u2019s a crowdfunding campaign for people who want to watch giant robots fight to the death. MegaBots Inc. \u2014 a Boston-based company that builds huge, human-operated, fighting robots \u2014 launched a Kickstarter campaign today (Aug. 19) to raise money to develop a huge, gun-toting robot, in preparation for an upcoming \u201cduel\u201d with a similar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69672,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16680\/revisions\/69672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}