Junkbot flying saucer

From the Boing Boing Flickr Pool: a glorious junkbot called the "Scout Ship for Landfill Art project" from CyberCraft Robots.

Scout Ship for Landfill Art project - Industrial and Found Object assemblage sculpture from CyberCraft Robots

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captaintrips

I wonder if I can attach a gas feed at the top, and have it come out of the little exhaust nozzles…
BarBarSeven

One puny human’s junk is another superior lifeform’s treasure.
CyberCraftRobots

Thanks for the post! Stop by the Orbiting Laboratory and meet all the CyberCraft Robots! http://CyberCraftRobots.com
http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/12/04/ufo-sculpture-by-nem.html
I was about to make the same comment about the Central Scrutinizer…
herartsheloves

Story on robots? Of course, I’ll comment! Always in awe of junk art, but turning them into awesome robots. Uber Awesome.
Patrick Girouard

Also – http://www.etsy.com/shop/drawboy?ref=pr_shop_more
http://www.facebook.com/wordhole Neal Ross Attinson

Hmmm. A Billy Meier #6, with legs. Well done, Pleiadian puppet. Well done.
ethancoop

this has been up all day and not a single “Batteries Not Included” reference?
daev

Looks a bit like what happened to Bender in Roswell That Ends Well.
(and very cool, BTW…)
LydiRae

http://www.Landfillart.org is still looking for more art submissions created on or from hubcaps. I did mine a year or so ago, and they sent me a very fine piece of chromed steel to paint on. It’s an awesomely large art project and I think their goal is a thousand or more art pieces.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Luis-Gottardi/522607507 Luis Gottardi

Congratulations to Sarah and Cyber Craft Robots! I’ve known Sarah and her work for some time, and reviewed it. Glad to see it here.

Back in the day, decades ago, my friends and I used to throw hubcaps like frisbees, though none of us dared try catching one!

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