jfruh writes: Japan may have just lost the Women’s World Cup to the U.S., but the country is hoping for a comeback in another competition: a battle between giant robots. Suidobashi Heavy Industry has agreed to a challenge from Boston-based MegaBots that would involve titanic armored robots developed by each startup, the first of its kind involving piloted machines that are roughly 4 meters tall. “We can’t let another country win this, ” Kogoro Kurata, who is CEO of Suidobashi, said in a video posted to YouTube. “Giant robots are Japanese culture.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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