MegaBot VS Copy Machine (CRUSH IT!)

[@robm6726]

I'm glad your able to do this to keep things afloat until you can secure more long term funding.

[@GoGunCo]

This does not keep us afloat. It's more like "slightly less sinking" As additional people get signed up, we'll start raising prices and see if we can get close!

[@nipulkradmsinatagras8293]

Never thought a 5-minute video could be so satisfying!

[@Dehslash9]

Okay this was entertaining. Now if we could just get that battle against China's Robot that'd be great.

[@edgaralcantara4845]

This is amazing, it's really exciting what this could become, I'm excited for the future of mega Bots! I also need one of those mechs to crush the office printer, then again that powder gets everywhere!

[@KarlismiSN]

It's scary how powerful this is, all they need now is agility and it's actually going to be a weapon used to destroy tanks

[@tannerwallace9258]

Teaming up with other YT content creators, I think, could be a pretty safe bet. There are quite a few in California and I think a lot of them would jump at the opportunity to be part of this series.

[@UnstableReactor]

Glad to see Eagle Prime still munching metal! You guys rock, keep on keeping on. One day the giant robot world competitive circuit will have you pioneers to thank!

[@JoshuaPritt]

Gonna need way more stuff to crush!

[@ScribeHolder]

You're back finally

[@abdullanabi4317]

I wanna support you as much as possible mega bots

[@COM-DsP]

I am xerox service engineer, lol. It seems I have a lot of work to fix it after you.

[@itspayday8470]

you will always be in my heart

[@nymalous3428]

I was hoping for an overhead smash (you know, bringing the fist down on it). I guess the tech isn't quite there yet. Still, neat idea, having fans do a little something. (Also, quite shrewd picking a pretty girl for a temp pilot.)

[@someonesmart7871]

You know what this thing needs ? huge speakers.

[@Slamraptor]

It has actually, check their videos. (:

[@ironmight4334]

Your gonna make the copy machine IIINNKKKK!

[@johnnyjohnsonjohn2593]

You should put cameras in the claw so they can view it in the cockpit.

[@GoGunCo]

the gunner already does have a camera pointed at the claw. It's, unfortunately, a very wide-angle lens and hard to get good depth perception out of it. Usually easier to just lean out of the cockpit and take a look yourself

[@kevek42]

@@GoGunCo Yeah, the cameras are pretty hard to see with.

[@johnnyjohnsonjohn2593]

MegaBots Inc Oh didn’t know that, but I mean a camera directly in the claw so you can look from the perspective of the claw.

[@xunk16]

That would be dangerous for the camera. Though it would be entertaining. On the other hand, if depth perception is the problem... why not use a double camera producing a 2D render with markings for distance and size? I hear there is now some pretty good apps with measuring things (for cellphones).

[@firestar1056]

*builds giant subscribe button* HERE I COME!

[@EgoBruiser]

alright, the hot rod, cycle n gun mags with hot girls just wont be the same anymore... BRING ON "BABES n MECHS"!

[@numgun]

A hydraulic press channel equivalent starring Eagle Prime mk3 sound cool to me! :D

[@littlejonathorn6860]

That’s awesome!!

[@bmitch3020]

1:25 [breathing intensifies] 🤣🤣🤣 I wish you let her take it out.

[@littlejonathorn6860]

or vending machine!!

[@LazarheaD]

Crush my hopes and dreams!

[@FinnUkato]

LazärheaD a little to late for that

[@PP-yv6wn]

That looks fun

[@Helldiver450]

awww yes!

[@mr.2minutes161]

but can you crack an egg and cook it?

[@Komodo2555]

You need someone who can controll the whole potential of the machine to show off! :D

[@GoGunCo]

Komodo2555 if you think you can do better, www.megabots.com/book

[@rando1090]

Real talk: My owning of a 2Mil giant robot has gone from a want to a mega want

[@ScarriorIII]

Gimme a few months and ill be there. Honest.

[@robm6726]

While not currently feasable power wise I wonder if you could stick a massive railgun on eagle prime instead of a paint cannon, just for the size and destructive ability of one, that's a armament you could potentially see on a large weapon platform in the future. The only realistic reason for a Mech is if you want boots on the ground with excessive amounts of firepower and relative saftey from IED's and the like at the same time, mostly for a occupation force have a group of 3 or 4 of them not much could get in the way if you could provide sustained power and somehow protect the hydraulics. the only main way to get this funded long term is try try and pitch a practical application of this tech.

[@Huntracony]

Here's the thing... You don't want to actually kill your opponent, 'cause that's called murder. And murder, as you might know, is illegal and immoral pretty much everywhere on earth (and in space). In all seriousness, they're not building military weapons, 'cause it just wouldn't be a good one, they're building something that will put up an awesome show.

[@xunk16]

Military applications could see the light of day... for urban warfare. And we all knows that when it gets this ugly, the Geneva convention will kick in hard. Otherwise, there is a strong competition coming from tanks on long distance fight on flatland. Mainly because they represent less of a vertical target able to fall.

[@waynefilkins8394]

What kind of microcontrollers do they use for something this big?

[@robstar020]

Ayy always wicked seeing the bot in action. Get that money aha

[@randomspectator39]

Crush other companies

[@screwthenet]

I saw crush it and a cute gal, and naturally, I went to a different place. "$500 bucks!?" I said " No date is worth that".

[@screwthenet]

All this and more has been foretold. Big ol robots, medium and small, micro, nano, pico, fem to machines etc. All the gundam, mech warrior stuff. Long as machines never get too sophisticated with their Ai, and remain mainly as tools, we may survive into the far future. MAybe... NEat vid

[@joshchelvolski1033]

Am going figure out that due to technological difficulties they opted for cataplier tracks then legs. 🤔

[@angolin9352]

2:05 _4000_ psi? That's 272 atm! Is that at all normal for hydraulic systems?

[@stretch44875]

It's about double, but not unusual. We use up to 10,000psi at work, in jacks

[@QuijanoPhD]

... and then everyone died of inhaling copy machine toner :(

[@dispiedark8682]

The intense hate you can have for a multi function printer, I understand. kill it !

[@Refaldooloo]

Oh man, toner is a PITA to clean!!!!

[@GoGunCo]

Thankfully we are in a big dirty warehouse

[@littlejonathorn6860]

Crush a car.

[@joshchelvolski1033]

Word of advice for people wanting to enter Mech competitions, size isn't everything.

[@xunk16]

Still waiting for you to team up with construction and civil service enterprises to broadcast the potential application of mecha outside of "crushing things". I mean, crushing things is fun... sure. But the point is that for investor to input money in that, the bot must have some real life application afterwards, yes? Eagle 1 helps people out of buildings in fire. Eagle 1 helps tree cutting teams to maximize productivity which in turns save trees! Eagle 1 makes the work environment safer for skyscraper builders by letting one man manipulate materials on a greater scale. Eagle 1 helps getting survivors out of crushed ruins after earthquake / Tsunami / cyclones, etc... All this might not look as aggressive, or American, or even entertaining at first... But it might just make the sound of "Contest to build Harder, Better, Stronger mechs" more productive and economically sound.

[@jamester0772]

No, the core business model isn't in any of that stuff, but in entertainment. The idea is that they want to make it a worldwide sport/competition for who can build the best mech and broadcast those fights. Problem is that there aren't a lot of other mechs to fight, and in the current state of mechs the fights are pretty boring so most of the big funders also bailed on it. All and all I think it's a great idea but there either needs to be a massive spike in finding to get more agile mechs or the company needs to survive till technology is just a bit further to much more easily build more competent robots so more people can join in.

[@xunk16]

@Jami Saueressig : This is kinda my point, right there. Bots need to be better, ok... Investor needs to get interested, ok.. But Car races, while entertaining, had this little help that "Cars" actually had other applications than running in circles. Better motors or aerodynamics can be used on the market all the time. When there was the recent nuclear event in Japan, their government asked if they could use humanoid robots such as Asimo to help with path-finding along the debris and potentially alleviate the risk of secondary meltdown, etc. The answer, sadly, was no. It wasn't ready yet. So they had to build a much simpler robot to do the essentials in time. Something that was not nearly as good as what a humanoid bot could have accomplished if it was ready and didn't need a full upgrade just to move in relation to unexpected and uneven floors. The point here is that for Mechs to be entertaining, there is going to be a lot of trial and errors. A fighting arena is the perfect "race" for this kind of test. Not because it is useful, but because it is the ultimate test for a given robot. Can it move that way? Can it sustain that much damage? Can we make it faster, more agile, what happens if the Mech has this much pressure on this part? Or even simply; can it react that fast? How do we improve it? Can it still move and know what it does when the ground is covered in debris, flammable liquids, or while missing a leg? Those, while all entertaining, are very serious, very important scientific questions. Some of which had already been met by Megabots even prior to their first fight! And sadly, I do not think that the Kuratas engineer had the time, nor funds, to do this kind of testing with his own bot. But for money to come down from people not necessarily in the entertainment business, the questions remains to demonstrate what the mech or robot, or power suit, or whatever, will be able to do afterwards. If it was a car, this would be easy. People buy cars all the time even against their best judgment. Mechs don't have a clear purpose outside of destruction yet. And this is hurting the market. Because there is a strong competition from tanks and power suits. What the market needs to realize is that programming mechs and building better cockpits is actually helping advance robotics at large. That big a** arm can be used to crush, yes, but it is also fast, powerful, and can be agile once the fine tuning of how to pilot it will be fixed. Let's say it is one day fixed. The plans for that arm, the knowledge gained by using it in disastrous situations; it renders the potential applications as limitless as a human arm. On whatever the hell scale we choose! The conversion becomes simple math. But for now, mechs are kinda like the Wii U. It seemed a good idea from the point of view of designers... Game programmers, on the other hand, must still find what to do with that bloody touch screen. The door is opened. But the question remains of who will want to get on the other side and why. The obvious solution was then to turn toward entertainment. Entertainment does a lot of selfish and senseless things all the time. The market is built around trying to deflect expectations while finding a niche of people who will actually sacrifice their time and money to see something that resonates with them. And sure, mechs do resonate with a lot of people. Then comes the question of scale. In the TV show business, budget is everything. It was a problem before that lead to the proliferation of reality TV. Then, they tried to cut the writers in order to push for more special effects. The results were disputable at best. Some of the fallout then came to the KZbin rush with the democratization of CGi. Of course this is not even near what a big production can do, but it still sometime produces interesting results. Eventually, the best examples would be sci-fi shows, which usually engulf immense amount of money for a loyal but restricted niche. Among those, a Mech would be kinda equals to Farscape, or The Expanse. Farscape was the first Sci-Fi show for Australia (or at least it claimed to be), as a result, it needed stuff that no other show there ever needed before. For it to work, it took three channels as producers with the main one being a subscription channel. As per season 3, each episode took the amount of money that might have produced a movie (at the time) and the main investor bailed out. Farscape had luck in that it had a loyal fan base that actually managed to push and crowd fund a movie. Sadly though, it wasn't enough for the planned final season 5. (Which would have had the time to resolve a lot more story arc, mainly with the Nebari Empire and the Hynerian return of the King). Years later, the same channel (Syfy), decided to took it upon itself to enter the fray of book to TV Show adaptations with The Expanse. (It's all what the fuss is about right now...) A show which needed to include gravity special effects and a strong amount of credible CGI, in other words, a beast. But, even strongly capitalizing on the success of yesteryear like Firefly, Farscape, and Battlestar Galactica (from which the aesthetic and the plot of the show strongly borrows); Syfy eventually bailed out. Why? Because it is an incredible amount of money for fluctuating audiences. However, visibility was also achieved by The Expanse. Enough so that Amazon Prime took it upon itself to continue to produce the show. (No doubt at a lesser cost since a lot of sets and costumes were already done.) Remember though... All these technologies are already developed. The only question remaining is what is to do and how much will it cost. Both things that are clearly defined and can easily be used by the producers while managing costs. Mechs... Aren't as easy or appealing to the entertainment sector. Sure, China begins to have them show up at public events and some such. Some TV Shows actually began to use them as props... But the problem of a sports league for mechs is the Destruction involved itself. Each new episode would need the budget of building a new robot. Which in turn would need a team of engineer who know what they are doing enough to manage well... entertainment. Since you cannot guarantee that the mech will function as planned, and cannot foresee all the delays possibly involved, nor the risk for human life; the pitch for such a project becomes hardly appealing for producers. We are speaking Disney level budgets not for each fight, but for each mechs here. A thing which season 1 of Megabots demonstrated painfully. It was very intense of Megabots to manage even that at first. And they still needed crowdfunding to even get started! One could also point out that for it to work as it did, they had to neglect entirely the funding of the other team, or sharing data, which in turn hurt the production value of the first fight to no end. This lead to season 2 of Megabot. Which basically asks; "who in the world would pay for robotics to get better?" And the answer to that question already exists. People who do hard work at big scales and in hard conditions. Hence why I think that this should become like car races. Not only for the fun of it, but because afterward, there is a mech there that can do the job. And because answering the plethora of questions revolving around fight conditions is no different than NASA testing ships. The whole point is to have the right answer with a high degree of certitude in order to NOT build a bot that is utterly useless. Thus managing costs, not for the entertainment part where it would be impossible, but for the corporations that will give jobs to the winning teams after the fights.

[@spyrelle3970]

​@@xunk16 I'm going to adress your initial point because good greif that reply is a darn essay I simply don't have the time or patience to formulate a reply to it right now. Keep in mind this perspective is from a layman who's a mech inthusiast with no knowledge of robotics but who'd love to see mecha become reality. From my perspective, isn't entertainment a real-life application? What's the real-life application of football or all the sports that's broadcasted in the world? I don't agree that investors need to see the "practical" side of something outside of entertainment if entertainment is the goal, why would we have monster truck rallies if that were really the case? Now I do see your point, there's no harm in trying to broaden their market by marketing Eagle Prime to the civil service enterprises, but the cynical side of me doesn't see that working with Eagle Prime because it was built first are foremost as a show machine, what use is it going to be in anything else but it's designed role as an entertainer? For me, what Eagle Prime needs is to do the job it was made for better, at present it just doesn't meet the expectations of the shows and films that inspired it for reasons that rank in the hundreds.

[@xunk16]

@ Spyrelle : (Short version). You do have a point there. Though it is still sad that in the condition they are in right now they seem to refuse to play the technological advancement card. Who knows... they sometime read their KZbin Comments. Maybe he'll see it.

[@spyrelle3970]

@@xunk16 MegaBots Inc. do have a Discord server where you could take your concerns to the patrons/fans, and some employees in real time rather than leaving a comment amoungst a hundred where it'll likely be lost; you could probably leave a message for Matt there and if he doesn't get back to you the fans there would likely have a good discussion with you? Discord Link: discord.gg/Gr4mfgb

[@AshtonBeyer-ht2sh]

I wont a job with those

[@ronsmith1364]

I would enjoy driving around a bit and raising up and down. Crushing stuff pretty fun tho..

[@nemo_0688]

Leeeeettttsssss doooooo thiiiiiissssss gggggooooooizzzzzzz. Lol

[@doomyard8229]

Does Prime have a hammer arm or Pile Bunker?

[@tiagotiagot]

What is the insurance situation like?

[@joshchelvolski1033]

Isn't this mech sort of based off the cougar mech from mech warriors mercenaries.🤨

[@BioToa7]

I think you should make a like, dislike, and a subscribe button that are actually boxes designed to look like those buttons for an end-card to this new crush it series

[@littlejonathorn6860]

Crush a pinball machine!!

[@GHOSTD475]

please fight another bot

[@MichaelPace2.0]

That's a nice top she's wearing! That toner looked satanic

[@Henners]

PC LOAD LETTER, WTF DOES THAT MEAN?!

[@angolin9352]

Load letter-sized paper into the paper cartridge.

[@whollymindless]

"Kill me now"

[@Rev_1776_]

🔥🎉Finally, another vid!🎉🔥 1st btw. 😊 🤯🤯🤯🤯WON'T PLAY... 'private' -? 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@abdullanabi4317]

😀🤗😘😉

[@ScribeHolder]

Crush my hopes and dreams please

[@GoGunCo]

can do! sign up! www.megabots.com/book

[@keeanekoh4699]

Noice

[@tr165eaglebsa4]

5 like

[@sirloinofbeef9683]

Get elon to fund you _In musk we trusk_

[@donvincenzo44]

Boring

[@maxmiranda9660]

I thought it was dope. Why did you think it was boring?

[@JC-ze2et]

I know it looks cool, but it is basically just two excavator arms on a tracked base. Awesome to be sure, but nowhere near what I would consider a giant robot ( like Gundam or MechWarrior.) I'm sorry, but I can't see this as anything but a giant toy. This sucks, because I was really looking forward to that big first giant robot fight, but it turned out to be such a disappointment. It seriously made me think of two wimps trying to have a slap fight, not two machines tearing each other apart. This isn't meant as an insult, it was just so anti-climatic that I lost all interest and only clicked on this because it happened to pop up. Seriously, watch some anime or a couple episodes of BattleBots.

[@Refaldooloo]

Apples to oranges because of scale and physics. No one else has built a bot like this. Think of the first computer that came out. Imagine if we stopped there because it was so large and not powerful. Quit being a Negative Nancy and support these guys. With time and money, one day perhaps you'll see a fight you've wanted since your youth.

[@4thekore]

If we can get more of these then one day we may get a sports league and from there it only gets better but if we just give up it won't happen ever again guaranteed.

[@Huntracony]

*Refaldooloo,* now who's comparing apples to oranges? Computers, even the early ones, were very useful tools. This is not useful, it's something built to put up a good show. And if it doesn't, that's a valid complaint. That said, I still think it's awesome.

[@Huntracony]

*J C,* Robot Wars was so much better.

[@Refaldooloo]

@@Huntracony Touche. My point though was give it time and it will be better. Don't just write it off now.