Titanoboa is a reincarnation of the ancient 50ft long serpent
rendered extinct by past climate change. It was built at eatART in East Vancouver, BC, Canada
«With the BionicKangaroo, Festo has technologically reproduced the unique way the kangaroo moves.
Like its natural role model, it can recover the energy exerted when jumping, store it and retrieve it efficiently on the next jump.»
At 3.2m high its a monster! Weight? No idea but theres not one piece can be lifted by one person.
Thanks to eBay for working with us on this project its amazing that all the components came from there site.
Check out the build videos
Part 1https://youtu.be/kSuaykdvl4I
Part 2 youtu.be/FO6My1joJVc
We get a demo of Prothesis, the exoskeleton mech suit designed by Jonathan Tippett and his team. This 8000 pound mech is directly controlled by Jonathan using his arms and legs, without any stabilizing gimbals or gyros. Jonathan explains how he has to essentially relearn to crawl in the Prosthesis, and we see and hear this massive machine lumber across a parking lot.
In January of 2015, MegaBots and Autodesk partnered up to challenge makers from around the world to design the armor paneling of miniature MegaBots to show what our final walking robots might look like, and a reloading left arm cannon for our full-scale MegaBot. We then turned the torso shell and right arm of our Mk. I upper body prototype into a full-scale, 15 foot tall, 6 ton tracked mech that has the ability to drive, stand, torso twist, and fire interchangeable weapons from both arms.
The Mk. II is a tracked prototype of the walking mechs were gearing up to start designing and building. Its roughly the same size and weight as our final robots will be, with similar abilities to change out weapon systems and armor paneling.