Installation

Prosthesis

bookable

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.

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

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Specs

Footprint 13 ft tall x 18 ft wide x 17 ft long

3.96 x 5.51 x 5.1 m standing. Walking demos need a much larger cleared area, sized per site.

Weight ~4,000 kg (8,800 lb)

Power Fully electric, 36 kWh battery

96V lithium-ion pack driving two AC motors and hydraulic pumps, up to 150 kW (200 hp) peak. 15-60 minutes of operation per charge; charging agreed per event.

Transport Heavy-haul trailer from Squamish

Quoted per event.

Container fit Flatbed only

Install Arrives with its own pilot and crew

Piloted by Jonathan Tippett, its designer and builder.

Machinery Lowbed trailer and a forklift or telehandler for unloading. / The crew supplies its own charging gear; you supply a 208V or 240V 50A drop for overnight charging.

Storage Stored indoors in its Squamish workshop. / Needs a covered space about 20 x 20 ft between events.

Home base Squamish, BC

Engineering P.Eng stamped

P.Eng stamped. / Designed and built by mechanical engineer Jonathan Tippett; in field trials since 2017.

Insurance Artist's own liability certificate, confirmed per event. / Certificate naming your event on request.

Site Firm, open ground with a controlled perimeter

Plus heavy-vehicle access for delivery. The site plan is agreed with the team before booking.

Prosthesis is the world's first purpose-built off-road racing mech: a 4,000 kg, four-legged walking machine with a human strapped inside it. There are no joysticks, no autonomy and no gyro stabilisation. The pilot moves their arms and the legs move, with electro-hydraulics amplifying their strength about fifty times and haptic feedback telling them what the ground is doing. Everything it does comes down to the skill of the person inside.

It's the work of mechanical engineer and artist Jonathan Tippett, who spent more than a decade building it with a crew of volunteers at the eatART Foundation in Vancouver. It came out of the lab in 2017 and has since been shown at Burning Man 2017, CES 2017 and 2018, Maker Faire Bay Area 2018 and 2019, and Amazon re:MARS in Las Vegas. In 2020 Guinness World Records certified it as the largest tetrapod exoskeleton.

At an event it walks as a live demonstration, piloted by the person who built it. You book it through us, and its own team runs it on the day.

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Bring Prosthesis to your event

Nothing is held until we confirm your dates.