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justdrew
Interactive musings from a creative technophile
Performing giant robot spider
Like any real American (by birth, at least) red-blooded man, I’m a big fan of performance art. I also like robots and spiders. Brewing up the perfect storm is this French group called La Machine who last year staged an expensive but interesting work in the (with apologies to all my Scouser friends) dreary city of Liverpool.
Here’s a photo-journal of the event, which is quite good.
I wanted to see video of it in action and of course, there’s some on Youtube, but suprisingly, the photos are better. The video is quite tiresome and dull. You get a feel for how nimble (or not) the machine is from just a few seconds of vid.
Now, put a decent controller on this thing and program in some walk routines; speed up groups of motion processes and make the thing friggin scurry! Now that would be entertaining… though highly dangerous. Wouldn’t want all those people standing around, but the effect would be chilling. Things that big normally don’t move as fast as a spider can. Scaling that up would be goosebump-inducing, to be sure.