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you may have seen two giant robots fighting on the internet recently that was mega BOTS versus kuratas and I am here with David Isaac's the head of leaf development for mega watts Inc which is gonna be starting a robot fighting League that I would like to know much more about and also megawatts eggs VP of business development Jake coos Rach thank you so much for joining us thank you all right so let's talk a little bit about the fight and then we'll talk about the league so how do you guys feel I'd make about Cink about the very first mega robot fight first of all it's amazing to have been able to bring this to people we have so many people coming up to us and saying thank you for making my childhood dreams come true and a lot of people realize how much technology how much R&D went into this so it's really amazing to us to have finally been able to pull it off yeah and winning was nice winning is always always good so you are in charge of the league and its development could you tell us a little bit about how you plan the league to sort of work because giant fighting robots are a lot different than say football the idea is really that we have teams teams can come from individuals cities teams can come from companies and teams can come from other countries and we're going to bring them all together and have fights here in the United States in arenas and around the world have tournaments awesome um so if in terms of the very first fight if there was anything that you guys at mega BOTS could do differently is there anything that you would have changed or is there anything based on maybe feedback from the internet or or just internally is there anything you guys would have done differently yeah I mean we really wanted to host it here in the US I think that's gonna one of the big things and I think another thing is you know obviously for people they have different expectations when they think about giant robot Fighting's they've been looking at CGI and of course and I think people I like the people that actually looked at our videos before and really knew what they were getting into it is super hard to pull off giant robot fighting and what we did really for people who understand the technology is amazing we had a tremendous number of viewers who saw it so I think we're proud and excited what we did and I think it's just the start it's just the minimum viable product it's just the proof-of-concept and we go from there will will there be a rematch of megabots and kuratas do you think that would be a thing that we might see Never Say Never but I think we are thinking forward moving on from cratis different competitors so far do you guys have a specific list of competitors or who what types of teams or people do you look for how does anybody even get involved if they want to build a mega robot maybe they have one in their backyard and they're like I'd really like to be involved in this league so we have I think 21 applications right now to participate in this league Wow and we have to vet them because we know how hard it is to build giant robots and frankly there are a number of them that we're like well they may build a giant robot but it might take them five years but what we're trying to do is figure out who actually has the technical capability the financial wherewithal to pull this off and then let them go build robots and compete against us in our league we are going to produce more robots so we see ourselves as actually producing many many robots that we could brand differently and we can produce them for other team owners so imaginable so we see that as part of it and we also see other teams coming in and bringing their robots you may have seen Monkey King from China challenging us we've had a lot of interesting challengers for us now that part of it is to figure out you know who's for real and who can show up at an arena at a specific date and really fight and as part of that as part of the development we need rules and procedures and regulations and so that's really what we've been working on was seen what worked what didn't work as well as we'd like what things do we need to and how do we set that up so that we have fair but really exciting fights yeah one of the things I thought was really interesting that a lot of people on the internet were bummed out about was not being able to be there in person to watch the fights and obviously there is an element of danger involved you never know how a robot part is going to fly off if it gets hit or if something malfunctions how do you how do you keep people safe but enable them to sort of watch these things or will they be a little bit more pre-recorded and packaged in a really professional way like is there a plan either way forward we are heading towards live live great that's really the plan and I think very shortly you will see announcements from us really that will make clear exactly how quickly we're planning to get there great um so some people have suggested that pilotless robots might be more exciting in terms of the damage the robots could do to each other because obviously you don't want to put a human person in danger piloting these robots even though it was dangerous for them to be piloting them in the first place even though you made it as safe as possible is is that a consideration well do you think that maybe the league will have rules about you must have a human pilot or maybe there doesn't need to be one I think we love this idea you know and frankly it's something we're testing you know we have you know two robots so we are playing with some formats we're trying out different combinations of man versus unmanned just to see how it goes and we want our fans to respond we want to hear what they have to say what they want to see cuz at the end of the day that's what we're trying to deliver I mean personally you know someone who helps start the UFC I like the human element inside the robot but I am you know safety is a primary concern and so I think we have to balance those and so it may be that we have two different classes of robots with two different types of fighting it may be that it's a developmental process where we move from unmanned to manned robots but I we're still in the really early stages of this we do want to make sure nobody gets seriously hurt and you're and when you see the size and the speed of these robots I can person you you understand this is heavy equipment and moving very quickly we need to do things in a very in a proper manner to make sure people really don't get hurt so you mentioned UFC and you are one of the cofounders of UFC you did that for a really long time did you just wake up one morning and decide you know what fighting robots is the future I'm gonna go with that what makes fighting robots more compelling than fighting humans I don't know if they're more compelling I think there's there's a similarity though between when we first started the UFC and people saw it and said I can't believe I'm allowed to see that and when they see giant robots fighting for real I think they think to themselves I imagine that this might exist at some point but I didn't know I would ever get to for real and that's what's really exciting for me it's kind of like the next level giant fighting robots and people really love giant fighting robots I know that you guys did some great things on your twitch channel could you elaborate a little bit more on that Jake yeah we did we actually had the largest non gaming stream larges following since 2015 so huge accomplishment for us million viewers actually million viewers total yeah well over that and yeah it's which is definitely gonna be kind of our platform for you know putting a lot of live content out there doing a lot of tests doing a lot of weird demos so yeah we start doing that starting this week so check us out on twitch at mega byte Inc yeah sweet and then last question if you had to choose two fictional robots to face off against each other your dream matchups what would they be Jake what about you that's a hard one I mean it's it's when we talk about talk about at the office but I think you know honestly I just saw blade runner so maybe a Ryan Gosling bot versus the girl from ex machina that'd be pretty cool pretty ooh I like it that does seem evenly matched a sexy fight that's yeah that would be yes like not only for just robot supremacy it would be also who is the most attractive Ryan Gosling that's a really good that's a great one I like that what about you David yeah I'm not as interested in a fair matchup so I probably take kind of a David versus Goliath approach so maybe one of the Gundam BOTS gun tank or something like that versus maybe the Arnold Schwarzenegger t1000 The Terminator robot so like let's see what happens when kind of a more humanoid form robot takes on a giant robot and let's see let's see how he takes him out it's a very compelling sports story you seem like you know what you're doing so I'm really excited to see what megawatts has going on you guys can check out megabots online there megabots dot-com you can see all of our YouTube videos you can go to the twitch channel I mean there's a million ways to find them on the internet we will be keeping tabs on megabots put your ultimate robot showdowns in the comments and we will see you guys next time vegan humans you