FIRST Alumnus Making Giant Fighting Robots

[Nyle]

One of Team 422's alumni, Gui Cavalcanti, is working on a project to make giant manned robots to fight in an arena. From their Kickstarter:

INCOMING: Real Life Giant Fighting Robots!

We grew up watching movies and playing games portraying a future filled with giant robots and mechs. Now the world is full of advanced robotic technology, but few of us get to see it in our everyday lives. It’s tucked away in research labs, worked on at high-tech companies, or sent into space. We get to see short YouTube videos and read articles about it, but for the most part, the coolest stuff is off-limits to the public. MegaBots, Inc., uses cutting-edge robotics technology to create the giant piloted fighting robots we were promised during our childhoods!

The mad scientists at MegaBots, Inc. have been zealously working on the prototypes and final design of 15-foot-tall, 15,000-pound, walking humanoid combat robots with giant, modular pneumatic cannons for arms. A driver-and-gunner team pilot each MegaBot in a battle against other MegaBots, vehicles, and a variety of other defenses and obstacles in live-action combat – the likes of which the world has only dreamed of through video games and movies.

I encourage you to check this out and donate if you think this looks as cool as I think it does; they need quite a bit of money to get this going.