This is a video of a real-life mechanical spider in a large scale found in Liverpool. Built by the French art company La Machine, It has been dubbed La princesse and is currently kept as a display in Yokohama, Japan.
This 50-foot arachnid-based machine took a whole year to construct, and while active and mobile (top speed is 2MPH) still requires a lot of assistance, including 16 cranes, 6 forklift trucks, 8 cherry pickers and 250 of the whole crew. Up to 12 puppeteers were strapped onto the spider while mobile; 3 were on top of the machine and 9 were underneath the body. I took at least the 9 below to control the joints on the legs. In total it had 50 axes of movement to arrange at the same time.
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