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Jonathan Tippett

Jonathan Tippett is a mechanical engineer and artist, and the founder of the eatART Foundation, an art research lab in Vancouver. He builds giant human-piloted machines: the Mondo Spider, an eight-legged rideable walker (Burning Man 2006); Titanoboa, a 15-metre electromechanical snake (CES 2013); and Prosthesis, the world's first purpose-built off-road racing mech, which he designed, built and pilots. He lives and tests in Squamish, BC.

Installations

The Mondo Spider, an eight-legged steel walking machine, with its rider seated in the middle in front of a graffitied rail car
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Mondo Spider

Jonathan Tippett

An eight-legged, 1,600 lb walking machine you ride. Steel legs step in a Klann linkage at a brisk walk, and since 2010 it has run silently on batteries.

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Prosthesis, a white four-legged exoskeleton mech, standing with its legs extended on open ground under a blue sky
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Prosthesis

Jonathan Tippett

A 4-tonne, 13 ft, four-legged exoskeleton racing mech, piloted from the inside by a human with no autonomy. Guinness World Record holder for the largest tetrapod exoskeleton.

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