CREATURES: BUG

robotic sculpture

2001, Rama Hoetzlein, MFA Thesis

ARTWORK

BUG is an 8-legged, 150 lb. robot that slowly walks backward across the floor. Large 12v AC automotive car window motors drive each leg. The steel robot was first welded as a central frame, with each leg designed as a piston. Slowly the robot drags its control board along the floor. BUG is a machine slowly becoming obsolete; the outcome of a decaying technological culture.

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