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<v Announcer>Getting ready to start</v>

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Eagle Prime any moment here.

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They're just getting strapped in right now.

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<v ->My name is Matt.</v>

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I'm the CEO of Megabots.

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Today, we had a live event where we actually brought people

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to West Oakland to watch Eagle Prime,

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our most powerful robot, tear apart some appliances

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and a cargo van.

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[heavy metal music]

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<v Announcer>All right, we're goin' for it.</v>

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We have a grip.

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<v Matt>Went to engineering school and realized</v>

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that these robots can actually be built

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with today's technology.

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The long-term vision of Megabots

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is to eventually have giant robot battles

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in stadium-sized arenas.

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<v Announcer>Where we going. Where we going.</v>

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Now, he sinks his teeth into this.

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Wow.

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<v ->We have two robots.</v>

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The one behind me is Iron Glory.

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It's the first robot we built.

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Weights about six tons.

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24 horsepower.

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And then we also have Eagle Prime here.

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Eagle Prime is our super-powerful 15 ton robot.

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430 horsepower.

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It's powered by a Corvette engine

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and that thing is capable of tearing stuff up.

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It has giant grapple arm.

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And it also has five foot, 50 horsepower

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trencher chainsaw on the left arm.

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It's pretty insane.

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Running these types of events is new for us.

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This is the second event we've ever run live.

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We're a startup.

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We're trying new things and we're just seeing

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what kind of meshes with the audience

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and what gives us the best value.

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You can find out more about Megabots

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by going to megabots.com.

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We have ton of really great YouTube content.

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Just search Megabots.

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And you can watch all the behind-the-scenes video

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of us building these robots

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and trying to make this dream happen.