How To Design Real-Life Combat Mechs From Scratch
Maker Faire Bay Area 2023
October 13th-22nd
Gui Cavalcanti gives you a behind-the-scenes tour of how Eagle Prime - a 15-ton, 16-foot-tall, 430-horsepower, 2-seater humanoid combat mech - was designed and built in a year and a half for $2.5 million with a team of 12. He'll be covering everything from initial design, to testing a gigantic robot that could destroy headquarters with one wrong button press, to figuring out how to ship it across the Pacific Ocean to the Giant Robot Duel in Tokyo. Photo: Greg Munson.
Gui Cavalcanti
Gui Cavalcanti is a mechanical engineer, serial entrepreneur, and roboticist who has designed and built robots that range from 5-pound robot arms made of fabric inflated with pressurized air, to 15-ton, 16-foot-tall, 430-horsepower, 2-seater humanoid combat mechs that have chainsaws and custom cannons for arms. He worked at Boston Dynamics, started the Artisan's Asylum makerspace in Boston, MA, co-founded the robotics companies MegaBots and Breeze Automation, started a global volunteer project called Open Source Medical Supplies, and currently works on robotic forklifts at Third Wave Automation. He's been designing and building cool robots since he was 14, and starting companies since he was 19.
