Japanese telecom company Softbank (the 62nd largest public company in the world) is buying Boston Dynamics from Alphabet (Google’s parent company). Softbank also got Japanese bipedal robotics company Schaft as part of the deal. Details of the deal weren’t published. Google bought Boston Dynamics in 2013 but put it back up for sale again last … Read more
ABC’s reality robot battle show BattleBots, which first hit the air in 2000, will be returning to “BattleBox” it out again. The seventh season premiere will be aired by ABC in a 8/7 Central Time slot, starting June 23. The robot makers have already entered their bots in a pre-season competition to decide which bots … Read more
A battle between the giant humanoid robots of America and Japan is in the works, as MegaBot USA’s challenge to Japan’s Kuratas Mecha has been formally accepted. Kuratas, the only giant humanoid robot manufacturer besides MegaBot, is set to meet the US bot suit sometime next year. Both bots will be equipped with paintball guns and … Read more