Monday, September 16, 2013
Oh My God It's A 30-Foot Walking Robot Dragon
kotaku.com: The Guinness Record won by Rancho Obi-Wan is impressive, sure, but can Star Wars memorabilia breath fire? Unless they've got one of the fire-breathing spiders from Star Wars Galaxies, then no; Tradinno, this 30-foot tall German robot dragon, earns the Guinness World Record for Best Potential Harbinger of the Human Apocalypse.
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This dragon looks sick!! The amount of time and money that went into designing and producing such an amazing attraction doesn't seem worth it when it comes to what it is used for. The production itself looks very bad and not interesting, but Germans have a much different take on theatre than the American audience. The dragon is so impressive with fog, stage blood, dilating eyes, fully movable body, and fire but what it is being used for doesn't maintain this high quality. I took a peek at the production website and the most expensive tickets are only 26 euros, which is a cheap ticket in almost anywhere in the United States. I don't think this company is ever going to get nearly close to making their money back, but on the other hand they have an awesome kick-ass dragon to play with.
Wow, this actually left me in shock, it is an unbelievable creation out of robotics. To think that this world record breaking dragon was created for a production is amazing. The amount of time, money, and labor that was put into this must be astronomical. This is one of the most amazing creations for a production that I have ever seen. It is a walking, fire breathing, and bleeding dragon it is simply amazing. I only hope that one day I have the chance to be a part of a new and innovative task like this.
When I first saw the gif of this dragon I assumed that it was just another animatronic gag but holy hell this is a friggin robot that breaths friggin fire. Seeing the skeletal system of this robotic and all the axes of motion that bring this thing to life is incredible. I want to know though just went into protecting all the components from the height and abuse that the weight of this creature alone causes. In response to Keith though I do not feel that something like this creation is meant to directly make the company their money back but as a marketing tool to show the industry just what they (the company) are capable of.
I can only imagine what the owners of this guy say to pick up girls at the bar... "Hey, wanna come see my 30' long robotic dragon?" I wonder how well that goes over.
Anyway, this really is a rather incredible piece of engineering. As Sean pointed out, the quantity of axes of motion is huge. The eyes alone had at least four each. However, some of the effects that were shown in the video, like the stabbing, were rather weak and silly looking. If Romeo and Juliet last year could have a blood cannon (no comment on how good it looked), I'm pretty sure this company could afford a better looking blood delivery system.
Please allow me to state the obvious....this is a pretty impressive culmination of engineering. I'd be interested to see a breakdown of components and a costs. The big question is, if one component fails, does the entire robot? I can't imagine that they wouldn't build in a number of redundancies for failure situations are varying degrees...but what's the nail in the coffin? At what point does a computational or mechanical failure of any degree become of show stopper? It's not like they can safe themselves with a manual crank on winch or jog override...
WOW. I can't imagine who had the guts to wake up one day and decide to build a 30 foot fire breathing, walking, flapping, blood spurting dragon.
This is just amazing design. Not only is the size of the robot impressive but it actually moves very smoothly and very animal like. It's very realistic. Even the painting of the robot is quite amazing.
I wonder how long it took them to build such a thing. And it seems like quite a dangerous machine if it shoots fire. I bet they have to check it all the time.
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