Mondo Spider, An Amazing 8 Leg Robotic Walking Machine

by Scott Beale on December 14, 2007 · 4 comments

The Mondo Spider is an amazing 1,500 lb, 8 leg robotic walking machine, inspired by Vancouver Junkyard Wars, that was created by a team of Vancouver artists for Burning Man 2006 as one of the funded art projects last year.

Here’s video of the Mondo Spider on a test run and another video of it at Burning Man 2006. More video can be found on the Mondo Spider website.

UPDATE: Violet Blue posted about the Mondo Spider a while back, linking to some photos of the project by Ryan Betts.

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1 Plugh December 14, 2007 at 9:41 am

I saw this on the playa and snapped a few close-ups.
http://flickr.com/photos/mudbarn/1331633474/in/set-72157601884887919/
and the following few pix

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2 Brian Stahl December 14, 2007 at 11:18 pm

YES. How much for an army of these?

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