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Awesome fire-breathing dragon is world’s largest walking robot (video)

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Tradinno and his creators at Zollner Elektronik AG won the 2014 Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Walking Robot. Packed to the teeth with hydraulics and pneumatics, Tradinno can move with surprising grace for an 11-ton mechatron, even flapping his wings and walking laterally, aka “doing The Hustle.”

When he’s not knocking over peasants in a Bavarian play called Drachenstich, Tradinno squirts out 21 gallons of stage blood and breathes fire from his nostrils and mouth.
via Gizmodo

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