{"id":14321,"date":"2014-10-19T15:28:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T20:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14321"},"modified":"2014-10-19T22:49:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T03:49:43","slug":"megabots-at-new-york-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14321","title":{"rendered":"MegaBots At New York Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The team hopes one day fans will root for bots the way they do for racing&#8217;s Jeff Gordon, ultimate fighting&#8217;s Ronda Rousey, and boxing&#8217;s Floyd Mayweather, Jr.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/megabots-at-new-york-comic-con-2014-10\">MegaBots At New York Comic Con &#8211; Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a MegaBots battle, a two-member team sits inside the bot&#8217;s upper torso, where the controls systems are housed. Although the co-founders assure me that the pilot and gunner are well protected inside, the situation presents a heightened suspense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Each 15,000-pound robot is equipped with six-inch cannons inside its arms that fire paint-filled missiles and cannon balls at 120 miles per hour. Good aim can cause enough damage to jam its opponent&#8217;s weapons system or shoot of a limb. &#8220;These aren&#8217;t Rock &#8216;Em Sock &#8216;Em Robo<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">ts,&#8221; Stroup laughs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team hopes one day fans will root for bots the way they do for racing&#8217;s Jeff Gordon, ultimate fighting&#8217;s Ronda Rousey, and boxing&#8217;s Floyd Mayweather, Jr. via MegaBots At New York Comic Con &#8211; Business Insider. In a MegaBots &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14321\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[442,633,1099,308],"class_list":["post-14321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-model","tag-market-strategy","tag-robotics","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14322,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions\/14322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}