Martin montesano had been captivated since childhood by enormous walking machines like the ones in The Empire Strikes Back. A few real-life versions have been built before, but they never lived uprnto his vision. He wanted his to be huge. After three years of labor andrn$50,000, Montesano's obsession has taken the form of a 12,000-pound, 23-foot-long steel vehicle, dubbed the Walking Beast. He first found a mathematical formula online that determined how all the parts could connect to make an eight-legged machine walk properly. But he still needed several months of experimentation to make the numbersrnwork for a version whose moving parts alone weigh 6,000 pounds.
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