{"id":85279,"date":"2018-11-29T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-man-who-built-star-wars-droid-bb-8-has-created-a-giant-rideable-robot-spider-here-it-is-in-action"},"modified":"2018-11-29T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:22:24","slug":"the-man-who-built-star-wars-droid-bb-8-has-created-a-giant-rideable-robot-spider-here-it-is-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-man-who-built-star-wars-droid-bb-8-has-created-a-giant-rideable-robot-spider-here-it-is-in-action","title":{"rendered":"The man who built \u2018Star Wars\u2019 droid BB-8 has created a giant rideable robot spider \u2014 here it is in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_K10fX9DSY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Animatronics engineer Matt Denton has worked on some pretty mindblowing projects. He\u2019s built special effects robots for \u201cStar Wars,\u201d \u201cHarry Potter,\u201d and \u201cJurassic World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But his latest project may just be his most ambitious yet. Denton has created a huge, six-legged driveable robot that has been compared to a spider. And it\u2019s won him a Guinness World Record.<\/p>\n<p>Denton was interested in robotics from an early age, \u201cI was mad for technical Lego,\u201d he told Business Insider. In fact, he still likes to build machines with Lego, <a href=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nsyFLqrX6Ss >as is attested by his YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/read.bi\/2AxIf3y\">https:\/\/read.bi\/2AxIf3y<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animatronics engineer Matt Denton has worked on some pretty mindblowing projects. He\u2019s built special effects robots for \u201cStar Wars,\u201d \u201cHarry Potter,\u201d and \u201cJurassic World.\u201d But his latest project may just be his most ambitious yet. Denton has created a huge, six-legged driveable robot that has been compared to a spider. And it\u2019s won him a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}