MA Hackerspace Building Rideable Hexapod 55
New submitter schlesingerj writes in with news about a six legged robot "The Artisans Asylum hackerspace in Somerville, MA is building a monster rideable hexapod named 'Stompy', with fully articulated legs (18 hydraulics actuators in total), powered by a humongous propane forklift engine. This is being built as a class, lead by a team of expert roboticists with an impressive background, including DEKA, Boston Dynamics and Barret Technologies and is expected to be finished by the end of the summer. I for one welcome our new robot overlords."
Artisan's Asylum info (from a long term member) (Score:4, Informative)
Meh. It's been done. (Score:4, Informative)
First, there's Mondo Spider [eatart.org]. The same guys are also working on Titanoboa [eatart.org], which is a ridable robot snake.
And both of those are electric. No propane forklift engines, which makes them much quieter.