{"id":30622,"date":"2016-09-29T15:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T22:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-first-episode-of-the-megabots-webseries-takes-a-wrecking-ball-to-its-six-ton-robot"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:24:52","slug":"the-first-episode-of-the-megabots-webseries-takes-a-wrecking-ball-to-its-six-ton-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-first-episode-of-the-megabots-webseries-takes-a-wrecking-ball-to-its-six-ton-robot","title":{"rendered":"The first episode of the MegaBots webseries takes a wrecking ball to its six-ton robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-episode-of-the-megabots-webseries-takes-a-wrecking-ball-to-its-six-ton-robot.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seems like we\u2019ve been waiting forever for the big showdown between Team USA and Japan. We\u2019re seemingly no closer at the moment, but at least the team at MegaBots can offer a bit of good old-fashioned destruction to tide us over before the massive machines go toe-to-toe.<\/p>\n<p>In the premier of its new web series (the trailer for which <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/09\/14\/megabots\/\">was shown off at Disrupt<\/a> the other week), the team behind the fighting robot startup league go to town on their own robot, the $200,000 Mk. II.<\/p>\n<p>In order to stress test the six-ton bot\u2019s protective casing, the team shoots it with its own gun and gives it several whacks with a wrecking ball. At the risk of spoiling the seven-and-a-half minute long video, it turns out it\u2019s really tough to knock over a 15-foot-tall fighting robot.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/09\/29\/megabots-2\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/09\/29\/megabots-2\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like we\u2019ve been waiting forever for the big showdown between Team USA and Japan. We\u2019re seemingly no closer at the moment, but at least the team at MegaBots can offer a bit of good old-fashioned destruction to tide us over before the massive machines go toe-to-toe. In the premier of its new web series [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30622","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60235,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30622\/revisions\/60235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}