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  • When we were young, we all thought of,

  • "I wanna have a transformer in real life, I wanna have this amazing robot in real life."

  • And then when technology actually that implemented, no one is tuned.

  • Reach Robotics, a UK based starter, is creating a entirely new gaming platform called "MekaMon".

  • Short for "mechanical monster."

  • It combines robots and augmanted reality.

  • Growing up in Nigeria, I'm very inspired by wild life.

  • But then my passion for gaming as well, and for Japanese designs, and robotics.

  • All of that coming together.

  • The better the robot can move, the better it can interact with the world around it.

  • There are some specific inspiration that we're taking from nature.

  • If you look at a spider's leg, by having the multiple degrees of freedom and having something that can react that fast,

  • that means you can change direction quite quickly.

  • So we've seen how cool it is to move around but we really want to kill something now.

  • Why do we need the little carpet square?

  • That's where we build the world from, from, you know, rubble to an alien spaceship.

  • Silas Adekunle uses augmented reality like Pokémon Go does, but takes it one step further by putting his real life robots in a virtual game space.

  • That's the robot now taking a hit from our opponent.

  • From a virtual opponent and the robot is reacting.

  • We've gotta fight back right?

  • Yea, yea, I can fire a missile against it.

  • VR would be the days of just overlaying an image into the real world, augmented reality should look at the world you're in and adapt to it.

  • So, he's telling us he's won.

  • Yea, he's telling us he's won and he's very excited. "C'mon for the next challenge," basically.

  • My robot now does different things in the way interacts with the virtual opponents and the way interacts with my friend's robot.

  • Here you go, take it for a spin and I'll grab my robot as well, and we can have a battle.

  • For now the augmented reality function only works in single-player mode, but multiple robots can battle each other in real life.

  • Ok, bring it on, right. Bring it on!

  • So you're taunting me now.

  • Yea it's taunting you now like "c'mon, c'mon."

  • - It's briliant! - Good game.

  • Starting in January 2017, a limited number of these mechanical monsters will be available for purchase.

  • Perhaps finally delivering affordable robot carnage.

  • I'm surprised you got any work done with these in the office.

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