Stompy the giant hexapod gets hexafunded, one step closer to hexacrushing your car
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So, just how many people want to see Stompy, the two-ton hexapod come to smashtastic life? Enough to fund the project in 11 days via its Kickstarter page. The folks at Artisan’s Asylum dropped us a line to let us know that Sir Stompsalot has hit its $65,000 goal as of 7:30 AM this morning, with 18 days left to pledge. That list includes two backers at the $5,000 adopt-a-leg level and nine backers for the $1,000 drive Stompy mark, so unless you’ve got a giant insect of your own, you might want to avoid driving the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts for a while…
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If you love robots, then I’d like you to meet Stompy. Stompy is an 18-feet wide, 4,000 pound, 6-legged hydraulic robot that was recently launched on Kickerstarter. Before we get to the Kickstarter thing, Stompy is actually the brainchild of Project Hexapod, a team of three instructors and a group of students based in Somerville, Massachusetts. While you can pretty much imagine all the fun that you can have with this robot as your ride, its creators say that Stompy can do more – walk over broken terrain and mountainous areas, and carry 1,000 pounds of load at 2-3 mph, or up to 4,000 pounds at the speed of 1 mph.
