Mantis Hexapod Walking Machine, developed 2009 to present by Matt Denton, Micromagic Systems Ltd, Winchester, United Kingdom

After four years intensive R&D, inspiration, design and build, Micromagic Systems is proud to unveil Mantis -- the biggest, all-terrain operational hexapod robot in the world.

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Mantis hexapod test footage edit. This video was shot during initial field tests in May and October 2012.

Many people have asked how easy it is to transport the Mantis, you can see this procedure at the end of the clip.

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Since getting a faster computer I have been able to add hydraulic rams to my Webots mantis simulation. This is great for testing new gaits and software tweaks to give me a rough idea the kind of hydraulic flow and peak ram speed prior to testing on the real thing!

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Part 1 of 2 about the Mantis Robot Build by Matt Denton who also built the real BB-8.

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Part 2 of 2 about the Mantis Robot Build my Matt Denton who built the real BB-8.

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Polly gets to grips with the Mantis Hexapod walking machine.

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Use a Desktop Browser or the YouTube App on mobile to get the full 360 functionality. This video was shot on a Samsung Gear 360 camera.

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Watching Star Wars as a seven-year-old has inspired a British engineer to create a two-tonne robot that has walked into the record books.

Matt Denton, from Hampshire (UK) has now built the Largest rideable hexapod robot, which measures 2.8 m x 5 m (9 ft 2 in x 16 ft 4 in) and weighs almost two tonnes.

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