Granett, a former technician at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has sketched out plans for a machine he calls the Bugjuggler, for which he’s currently soliciting corporate funding. The cutesy name hardly conveys the pure, ambitious madness of the project.
If constructed, it will rise 70 feet tall on two fixed legs. It will have two giant moving arms, each capable of throwing up an 1,800-pound Volkswagen Beetle (the “Bug” in Bugjuggler) and catching it. It will be controlled by a person wearing computerized gloves that simulate what the robot is holding in real time. Oh, and Granett wants the robot to do all this in front of a live audience. “Of course there will be a safety radius around the operation,” he tells The Verge.
via The Verge
Image: Bugjuggler LLC
