Have you seen
the movie Real Steel? I just saw it yesterday. It`s great, isn`t? Robot
fighting is always a fancy topic about technology. It is always used in so many movies and
animations, like famous one, Gundam.
However, robot fighting is no longer a dream to us.
Recently, Syfy
channel's newest show, Robot Combat League (RCL), has provided us with a
real-life robot fighting --and the best part is, we get to watch them destroy
each other in gladiatorial fashion. Though RCL is not the first show to have
robot fighting on TV, it is the first time that the robot actually copying, and
learning the movement of the people operating them! It sounds exactly like the
scenes in “Real Steel”! It`s exciting, isn`t it??? I would be definitely
recording the whole TV series once it starts to play!
Mark Setrakian,
who shown in the above picture, is actually the man who designed and built the
dozen robots on the show. It took him 4 months to construct only the prototype
to sell the Syfy channel, and then spent a long period of time and also roughly
$200 a pop for twelve robots. With all of the work that went into building
these bots, you might think that Mark will be upset seeing them destroy each
other. On the contrary, he's behind the scenes cheering and yelling as he is
the one who enjoys the most in this contest! As he says, Fighting robots,
obviously, are awesome. I couldn`t say how much I agree with him! How about
you? Leave your comments below and tell us something about your view for robot
fighting!!!
Joseph Yeung
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