Dudes build huge real-life gundam so the U.S. can fight Japan in a giant robot battle

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The makers of a giant, real-life, human-powered robot have challenged their Japanese counterparts to a giant robot duel. Anime fans, it gets no better than this.

Megabots is a company founded by Matt Oehrlein, Gui Cavalcanti, and Brinkley Warren. Its sole goal is to build giant, piloted mecha suits and then use them as nature intended: to fight other giant, piloted mecha suits.

Over a long process, the company has engineered a suit that could come straight from Gundam Wing or Pacific Rim. Here it is as a design...

...and here it is as reality:

And the best part of all? After lots of stress-testing, they've designed one that's combat-ready, and they know just the adversary to call out.

Across the pond, Suidobashi Heavy Industry is a company that alsomakes giant robots. Though their goal is to mass-produce and sell their mechas to lucky individuals, they haven't held anything back, as you can see from this 2012 demo introducing their robot, the Kuratas:

If you're a lonely mecha-builder with no other robot on your continent who's worthy of a challenge, what do you do?

Why, you challenge your worthy foes in Japan, of course. That's exactly what the team has done in this red-blooded video that will make every American stand up and salute the power of technology:

While it's too early to predict a winner, the Megabot has an extra 6,000 pounds on Kuratas' paltry 9,000-pound frame. But as Bane taught us, bigger isn't always better, and the Kuratas has been hitting the streets of Tokyo for the last three years. 

The Megabot challenge for Suidobashi to "name the battlefield" and "meet in one year's time" is a reference to the company's original goal of having an actual giant robot battle by 2016.

Still, we can't help thinking it might be better for everyone—or at least better for the infrastructure of whatever city they fight in—if the two giant robot teams joined up and protected earth from whatever invading forces might threaten it.

After all, the angels should be arriving any day.

Clarification: MegaBots was founded by Andrew Stroup, Matt Oehrlein, and Gui Cavalcanti. However, Stroup has since left the company and now Brinkley Warren is on the cofounding team.

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