Here’s a rough rundown of our media appearances thus far, in reverse chronological order:
- September 4th, Desktop Engineering, “Crowd-Financed Personal Projects Spawn Six-Legged Crawlers”
- September 4th, Boston Globe, “Six-legged robot project stomps toward fruition”
- August 30th, Engineer vs. Designer Podcast, “The Hexapod Project – Artisan’s Asylum”
- August 16th, SomervillePatch, “STOMPY, Somerville’s 2-Ton Robotic Spider, Gets Funding”
- August 16th, Popular Science, “18-Foot-Wide Rideable Robot Named Stompy Gets Funded on Kickstarter”
- August 15th, The Engineer, “Robot enthusiasts raise funds to build large rideable robot”
- August 14th, Engadget, “Stompy the giant hexapod gets hexafunded, one step closer to hexacrushing your car”
- August 14th, BBC News, “Ride-on giant robot ‘Stompy’ hits funding target”
- August 14th, PCWorld, “Arachnophobes Beware: Stompy Is A Giant, 6-Legged Robot That You Can Ride”
- August 13th, GeekBeat.tv, “Stompy: A Helpful Giant Robot Hexapod!”
- August 13th Press Release from Project Hexapod: Giant, Rideable Robot Being Developed In Somerville
- August 13th, Gizmodo Australia, “Stompy, The Massive Six-Legged Robot Of The Future, Is Almost Fully Funded On Kickstarter”
- August 13th, InnovationNewsDaily, “Designers of Giant Robot Hope for Imitators”
- August 13th, IEEE Spectrum, “The World Deserves a Giant Rideable Hexapod”
- August 11th, Geek.com, “Help fund a giant, rideable robot called Stompy on Kickstarter”
- August 10th, KurzweilAI, “Meet Stompy: the giant, rideable walking robot”
- August 10th, CNET, “Stompy: 4,000-pound, 6-legged rideable robot on the way”
- August 9th, Wired, “Building Stompy the Giant Robot Inside the World’s Biggest Hackerspace”
- August 9th, Kickstarter, “This Week On Kickstarter”
- August 8th, WBUR, “Why There’s a Rideable, 4,000-Pound Spider-Robot Being Built in Somerville”
- August 5th, Gizmag, “Stompy: 18 foot wide, 6-legged, rideable robot in the works”
- August 5th, Boston Herald, “Robot to ‘stomp’ Somerville”
- August 4th, Digital Trends, “Meet Stompy, a two-ton, six-legged transportation robot”
- August 4th, Hack A Day, “You are a sack of meat, easily punctured by Stompy”
- August 4th, Mashable, “Stompy is a Giant, 6-Legged Robot You Can Ride”
- August 4th, iProgrammer, “Stompy the Giant Hexapod – A Kickstarter You Want To Support”
- August 3rd, DigBoston, “KICKSTART IT: STOMPY THE RIDEABLE ROBOT”
- August 3rd, PandoDaily, “Stompy: A Hardware Project That Even Kickstarter Must Love”
- August 3rd, Time, “Meet Stompy, the 4,000-Pound Rideable Robotic Insect”
- August 3rd, BostInno, “Kickstarter Campaign of the Year: Fund the Creation of a Six-Legged Robot Spider Named Stompy”
- August 3rd, Grist, “Got $300? Buy a ride on a six-legged robot named Stompy”
- August 3rd, Engadget, “Stompy gets off the ground with a Kickstarter: buy a ride on a 2-ton hexabot”
- June 14th, Engadget, “Project Hexapod: eyes-on with Gimpy, the (half-scale) giant robot leg”
- May 14th, Boston Metro, “Local engineers building massive metal monster“
- May 6th, Boston Globe, “Catching a new wave of courses”
- May 5th, AutoBlog, “Meet Project Hexapod: A six-legged car-straddling robot”
- May 3rd, Wired.com, “Get Ready to Kickstart Project Hexapod”
- May 3rd, The Escapist, “Meet the Giant, Six-Legged Robot Vehicle Named Stompy”
- May 3rd, Hack A Day, “Meet Stompy, your new robotic overlord”
- May 2nd, Hizook, “Artisan’s Asylum: Hackerspace Startup Building a 2500+ lb. Rideable Hexapod Robot Named Stompy”
- May 2nd, DVICE, “Meet Stompy, a 2,500-pound walking car with six legs”
- May 2nd, BostInno, “Six-Legged Spider Robot Car Wants to be the Biggest, Baddest Mo-Fo on the Road”
- May 2nd, Slashdot, “MA Hackerspace Building Rideable Hexapod”
- May 2nd, Boing Boing, “Stompy is coming”
You were recently published in the KurzweilAI newsletter (aug 10th), That’s how I found out about this!
Thanks for the heads up!