The Walking Pod slowly crawls its way into your geodesic dreams

You can find strange robotic beasts at both Burning Man and the Maker Faire, so it's only natural that Scott Parenteau took his sheet metal creation, the Walking Pod, to both. The robot, Parenteau tells Tested, is inspired both by Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes and Theo Jansen's Strandbeest. The result is a singular, walking machine that utilizes twelve legs powered powered by two batteries providing around 800 watts. Two dishwasher motors are enough to move them, and the batteries can be c...