Where were you on the day of the world's first giant robot duel? Maybe you were working at your desk, brushing your teeth, labouring over your tax return, ironing the perfect pleat in tomorrow's pants. Meanwhile, giant robots were chainsawing other to shreds in a Japanese shed. SEE ALSO: Robotics expert Dr. Ross Mead reveals the truth about your favorite movie robots The world's first giant combat robot duel just happened on Tuesday, Oct. 17, pitting America and Japan against each other in a Twitch-livestreamed battle for the ages. Representing the United States, two epic robots from MegaBots Inc., founded by Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti.

In 2015, two American engineers, Gui Cavalcanti and Matt Oehrlein, set out to build a giant human-piloted combat robot called Mk. II MegaBot that could drive on tank tracks and fire 3-pound projectiles. The robot was pretty cool, they thought, but who would they fight? So they decided to challenged the only other giant piloted robot in the world to a duel. That robot was a 4-metric-ton mech known as Kurata and built by Suidobashi Heavy Industry in Japan. The Japanese accepted the challenge.

Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti, co-founders of the robotics company, MegaBots, with giant robots MK2 (left) and Eagle Prime. Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti, co-founders of the robotics company, MegaBots, with giant robots MK2 (left) and Eagle Prime. Two years ago an American robotics company challenged a Japanese robotics company to a duel. This long-awaited match between the monstrous robots -- built by MegaBots Inc. of the U.S. and by Suidobashi Heavy Industry of Japan -- will be broadcast on Tuesday via the online steaming site, Twitch. It's billed as the "first ever giant robot fight." "This is a personal dream of mine come to life," says engineer Gui Cavalcanti, MegaBots' co-founder.

At first glance, you might mistake this enormous robot for a character from the latest Transformers blockbuster. But, the 16 foot (five meter) tall machine is an American robot called Eagle Prime that is now ready to take on Japan's Kuratas robot in the Megabots Giant Robot Dual league. An incredible video shows the Eagle Prime in action ahead of the dual - which will be the world's first giant robot battle - taking place tomorrow, Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 at 7pm PST (10pm EST). At first glance, you might mistake this enormous robot for a character from the latest Transformers blockbuster. A dual between an American robot called Eagle Prime and Japanese robot Kuratas will take place tomorrow, Tuesday October 17th.

At first glance, you might mistake this enormous robot for a character from the latest Transformers blockbuster. But the 16 foot (five metre) tall machine is a robot called Eagle Prime that is ready to take on Japan in the Megabots Giant Robot Dual league. An incredible video has been released which shows the Eagle Prime in action ahead of the dual - which will be the world's first giant robot battle - taking place this month. At first glance, you might mistake this enormous robot for a character from the latest Transformers blockbuster. The Eagle Prime stands at 16 feet (five metres tall), weighs 12 tons, and has 430 horsepower.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. It's not always clear whether Boston Dynamics' robots are operating autonomously or being controlled by a human, but it's definitely clear in this video of a presentation and demo by Marc Raibert: At the end, the human driving Atlas accidentally walks the robot off the stage. We developed a mobile robot that rolls by active deformation of the soft outer shell.