Ironbull tanks
Ironbull tanks are controlled by two people.
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Ironbull makes remote-controlled smart tanks that shoot BBs at each other

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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One of the cooler and stranger booths I saw at the recent CES 2020 tech trade show was Ironbull, which was tucked away in the gaming section of the startup area of the show.

The Zagreb, Croatia-based company was showing off some big model tanks that looked like real World War II units. By itself, that wasn’t all that remarkable. But you could drive these tanks around with remote controls. One player would drive the tank using a tablet screen and hand controls, and another would use a controller to move the tank’s turret and fire its gun.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.