The US versus Japan robot fight that's going viral this week is really a ploy to create a totally new kind of sport

Forget football or basketball, the sport of the future could be a league of giant fighting robot teams. At least that is the hope of Gui Cavalcanti, the founder of MegaBots, a company that makes jumbo-size robots. Earlier this week, MegaBots released a video showing off 15-foot giant robot and challenged the Japanese robot maker Suidobashi Heavy Industry to a giant robot brawl. The video went viral and Suidobashi's founder Kogoro Kurata accepted the challenge in his own video and now it looks li...