POSTED BY

Rob Beschizza

AT 8:30 AM
Friday December 19, 2008

Robots

robot spider

Spider

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Photo: Reuters [Boston]

12 Comments

the_coffeegirl

#1 – 8:53 AM December 19, 2008

Its so cool!

zuzu

#2 – 8:59 AM December 19, 2008

"Now to threaten President Grant to relinquish all United States territory to myself and several other nations who financially supported my building of this mechanical spider!"

jathomas

#3 – 11:25 AM December 19, 2008

Must... stop...!

DeWynken

#4 – 12:28 PM December 19, 2008

Smoking pot leads to robotic carpentry!

kerns

#5 – 12:39 PM December 19, 2008

WH40K sweetness is the individual humans apparently controlling each leg:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/2008_in_photographs_part_2_of.html#photo29

note to self: build unitasked meat based control\processing units into *my* next vehicle...

urshrew

#6 – 12:56 PM December 19, 2008

I sincerely hope that someone was playing the singer/songwriter, Will Smith's "The Wild Wild West" while riding that thing.

Anonymous Anonymous

#7 – 2:12 PM December 20, 2008

Looks like "La Princess" to me - star of Liverpool's "Capital of Culture 2008" events.

More pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/825536@N25/

and here:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&ct=6&w=all&q=la+machine+liverpool&m=text

Guesstimate Jones

#8 – 6:25 PM December 20, 2008

Awesome...what is the story behind it?

mycroftb

#9 – 10:31 PM December 20, 2008

He is our hero!

paxed

#10 – 3:30 AM December 21, 2008

See the La Machine website: http://www.lamachine.co.uk/index.php/gallery/

Those are the same people who did the Giant girl / The Sultan's Elephant in 2006.

Ministry

#11 – 4:02 AM December 22, 2008

This was my highlight of Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture: three days during which I followed a 37-tonne wood-and-hydraulics spider around the city's landmarks, accompanied by fire, (fake) snow and jets of water. A lot of water, in fact.

Don't miss the Flickr groups:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/la_machine/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/825536@N25/

La Princesse is apparently expected in Yokohama, Japan next year.

Robert

#12 – 6:25 AM December 22, 2008

"Wiggy, wiggy, scratch, yo, yo, bang, bang.
Me and Artemus Clyde frog go save Salma Hayek from the big metal spider."

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