Silas Adekunle (center) founded Reach Robotics to make MekaMon robot toys. John Rees is left and Chris Beck is right.
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MekaMon will turn your living room into a robot battleground

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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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 can battle in both the physical and digital worlds. It’s one more marriage of digital and physical games that bring toys to life.

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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.