MegaBots calls it quits, puts battle robots on eBay
MegaBots
has gone bankrupt after once again running out of money, and it’s auctioning its 16-foot-tall Eagle Prime robot on eBay as part of the shutdown.
It’s a fully functional bot
that even includes weapon attachments,
CAD files and a shipping container full of parts, and the only real damages are its battle scars and some worn-down plastic pads.
The real challenges are the support costs, as MegaBots and its co-founder Matt Oehrlein explained.
To start, merely shipping it to your part of the globe is expensive.
It could cost $4,000 to ship it to the West coast of the US, $17,000 to the East and as much as $50,000 abroad.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/25/megabots-bankrupt-ebay-auction/
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