The Mekamon from Reach Robotics is a neat thing, a robot controlled by a phone app that walks on four legs. [Wes Freeman] decided to hack the platform, giving it a sensor package and enabling some ...

Though not quite as destructive as MegaBots, or as humbling as Boston Dynamics, Reach Robotics’ MekaMon might just be the most fun and accessible robot on the market. Leveraging augmented reality, ...

MekaMon is a real-life robot battler. Players use a mobile app on their iOS or Android devices to control a physical machine that looks something like a tiny Protoss Dragoon from Starcraft. An ...

MekaMon's eerily life-like robotic movement is unlike any other tech-toy I've seen. Combining video game and real world combat, these weaponised robot creatures come at a price ($329 each) but promise ...

Your living room is the next battleground. Reach Robotics is launching its MekaMon augmented reality gaming robots today. The Bristol, United Kingdom-based company has created app-driven robots that ...

Judging by the popularity of Comedy Central’s BattleBots, the BBC’s Robot Wars, and TLC’s Robotica, mechanized combat remains one of the most engrossing — and enduring — spectator sports on television ...

Between the success of shows like BattleBots and the amount of interest in last month's MegaBots debacle, it's pretty obvious that people really want to watch robots fight. But while watching two ...

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Augmented reality may still be just a toy for most, but that toy just became a lot more interesting with the launch today of MekaMon, a small spiderlike robot that you can control and fight in AR.