# Combat robots wow crowds
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 17, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642 "2004-08-17T03:03:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@The\_Vulcan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/The_Vulcan)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/1 "2004-08-17T03:03:03Z")
For people who like robots.
Footage of [The Rumble](http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0810/robo23.mpg) (3.48MB MPEG) shows eight robots with various fighting techniques battling it out. For example, one wields a knife while others use martial arts moves.
Story
[http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996286&lpos=home2](http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996286&lpos=home2)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/2 "2004-08-17T03:04:32Z")
oh man thats awesome!!!
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### Author:  [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/3 "2004-08-17T03:44:42Z")
Much more classy than the traditional americanized battle bots.
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### Author:  [@sWo0p](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sWo0p)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/4 "2004-08-17T07:35:16Z")
i have somewhere a link with a shop where you can buy these things… holdon i’ll post it later this day… dhamm those things a cool
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### Author:  [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 9:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/5 "2004-08-17T09:12:50Z")
Haha, that’s cool ! Too bad the movie was so short.
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### Author:  [@eilsoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eilsoe)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/6 "2004-08-17T09:16:14Z")
get your butt in gear swoop, I want one of those to terrorize my cats 😛
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### Author:  [@Maxtr0sity](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maxtr0sity)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/7 "2004-08-17T12:58:31Z")
I love the one with the knife!
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### Author:  [@The\_Vulcan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/The_Vulcan)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/8 "2004-08-17T14:08:52Z")
Aww I just had a thought of what would be cool…
Instead of playing streetfighter on a screen, you have those robots in a cage act out your moves… Although that would create problems with the likes of sonic boom…
Oh well, I am sure one day it will be in the arcades in some shape or form.
I can’t wait for robotics to take off… American football with robots running on the field.
Your teams are
Honda vs Microsoft
MIT vs Nike
etc…
As soon as that happens and huge amounts of money will be spent on trying to out do each other and robotic research will race ahead.
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### Author:  [@SlowRoasted](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SlowRoasted)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/9 "2004-08-17T14:14:28Z")
i cant wait until those are lifesize
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/10 "2004-08-17T14:37:05Z")
> [@SlowRoasted](#):
>
> i cant wait until those are lifesize
Yeah! These are soo cool.
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### Author:  [@sWo0p](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sWo0p)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/11 "2004-08-22T13:57:04Z")
[http://www.wowrobot.co.kr/Shop/index.php?var=Good&Good\_no=234](http://www.wowrobot.co.kr/Shop/index.php?var=Good&Good_no=234)
check it out 😛 … this thing rocks…
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### Author:  [@eilsoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eilsoe)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/12 "2004-08-22T14:42:37Z")
OMG!! 😛
that robot on the center of that page does tai chi!! 😛
awesome…!
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### Author:  [@eilsoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eilsoe)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/13 "2004-08-22T14:47:20Z")
here also:
[http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/wow-robot-khr1-017324.php](http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/wow-robot-khr1-017324.php)
apparently, it’s 1.450$ ☹
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### Author:  [@Coppertop](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Coppertop)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/14 "2004-08-22T16:28:13Z")
My god that robot weilded a big knife. These things are so cool! The look better than the north american/british versions - Hiya!
It’s a pity I can’t read korean
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### Author:  [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/15 "2004-08-22T17:21:37Z")
Apparently its supposed to be an easy language to learn. I know how to spell my name in it.
I want a robot. ☹
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### Author:  [@T\_O](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/T_O)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/16 "2004-08-22T17:24:35Z")
Whahaha… this is the best… This pulled be out of my Drepression… and fueled my hunger to go studie robotics again!
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### Author:  [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/17 "2004-08-22T17:29:20Z")
I think I would be too tempted to smash it if I couldn’t get it working correctly.
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### Author:  [@Sushisource](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sushisource)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combat-robots-wow-crowds/119642/18 "2004-08-23T05:50:33Z")
lol. i would love it. i would pester my freinds with it. knowing they would never hurt it because it costs too much.