With the challenge accepted by the Japanese owners of the Kuratas Giant Robot, there's no turning back for the owners of Megabots. This means that within one year's time, they should have their fighting Megabot ready for melee combat against Kuratas in what would be the first Giant Robot Duel in history.

The Megabot that will be built to take on Kuratas would be different from the Megabot that we have seen in the videos, it is just too slow and lumbering compared to the Kuratas which can run circles around it. In melee combat it will be how fast a robot can land blows, how agile to avoid hits, and how tough or armored to take punishment, will determine the winner. But of course, in order to do that there are too many things for Team USA to do, and therefore the Kickstarter project to raise the funds required to build the Megabot that can match the Japanese advantage in robotic technology.

It's going to cost them at least US$500,000 to get the initial upgrade with certain funding targets that go beyond the initial funding goal, they will be building a Megabot that involves practically the best people and companies in the USA and that should make the Japanese worry.

For the half a million dollar goal, they get to start to have the Megabot Mark II with a high performance track base. To achieve this, they will be working with Howe & Howe Technologies, the builders of the fast track machines popular known as the RipSaw. With the custom track base, they might have the Mark II move twice faster than Kuratas.

If they hit the golden 1 million dollar mark in funding pledges, they will go for the Dynamic Balancing Algorithm, working with the winners of the Darpa Humanoid Robotics Challenge, IHMC Robotics. The objective of this will be for the Mark II to maintain balance while in combat. They don't want their robot go down with just the first hit from the Japanese mech warrior.

Now, if they breach the 1.25 million dollar mark, then they will go for something even better --- Life Safety Systems and where will they go for this? Nowhere else but NASA where  they will tap the experience of their scientists to protect humans in extreme environments. They want to build a cockpit that will protect the pilot with NASA know-how.

For US$1,500,000 then it's going to be full aesthetics. The Mark I looks bland and rusty, but for the Mark II, they want to create a Hollywood-grade artistic look with FonCo Creative Services. If they achieve that they may have a giant fighting robot that deserves to be carrying the American flag.

So far, we haven’t heard from the Japanese side on their preparations and it looks like they are very quiet for now. Who knows? They might be planning to convert Kuratas into the first real life Gundam Mobile Suit. Oh dear! That would surely be a big, big problem for the Megabot Mark II.

It is just a disappointment that this will be a melee combat rather than use their already built-in weapons with Megabot using Paintballs and Kuratas spewing out airsoft BBs with its minigun (I do really want Hellfire missiles!)  But whatever the two sides agree upon just to have this fight happen next year then so be it. There are still a lot of details that need to be filled up such as where the fight will take place, fight rules, etc., and with the days passing by, they better get those firmed up as there will be people who would want to know where and when to buy their tickets.