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Want to ride an 18-foot-wide, 4,000-pound, six-legged hydraulic robot? If Project Hexapod gets enough crowdsourced donations on Kickstarter, you might be able to.
Stompy, the robot, is a project designed by a team of students and instructors -- who have experience creating commercial and military robots -- in Massachusetts. They launched the Kickstarter page Friday and are seeking at least $65,000. In just one day, they've raised $12,545.
But if the project exceeds expectations and raises as much as $300,000, its creators say they'll "start a company devoted to creating open-source high-end robotic technology, and start developing a zoo’s worth of rideable robots. We’re not even kidding."