Maker Faire Bay Area 2023

How To Design Real-Life Combat Mechs From Scratch

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Gui Cavalcanti gives you a behind-the-scenes tour of how Eagle Prime - a 15-ton, 16-foot-tall, 430-horsepower, 2-seater humanoid combat mech - was designed and built in a year and a half for $2.5 million with a team of 12. He'll be covering everything from initial design, to testing a gigantic robot that could destroy headquarters with one wrong button press, to figuring out how to ship it across the Pacific Ocean to the Giant Robot Duel in Tokyo. Photo: Greg Munson.