La Machine’s Giant Robotic Spiders Visit Yokohama For Expo Y150

by Scott Beale on April 20, 2009 · 1 comment

Pink Tentacle is reporting that a pair of giant mechanical spiders created by the French art collective La Machine are in Yokohama right now as part of the Expo Y150 celebration. Last September one of the giant robot spiders invaded Liverpool.

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photo by Tony Hara

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photo by karman4

See Previously: La Princesse by La Machine, A 50ft Spider Invades Liverpool

via Pink Tentacle

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1 Austin April 20, 2009 at 12:18 pm

pretty awesome, but lame that they aren’t actual walkers—there’s a truck supporting them underneath.

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