Location: MIT Cambridge, MA
Status: Built
Scale: 642FT
Year: 2015
Designed and built out of the “Megalithic Robotics” studio at MIT, led by Brandon Clifford and a team of students, this
sixteen-foot tall megalith was designed, computed, and constructed to walk horizontally and stand vertically with little
effort. Megalithic civilizations held tremendous knowledge surrounding the deceivingly simple task of moving heavy objects. Much of this knowledge has been lost to us from the
past.
This project mines, extracts, and experiments with this
knowledge to test what applications and resonance it holds
with contemporary digital practice.
Project Manager: Brandon Clifford
Project Team: Mark Jarzombek, Carrie Lee McKnelly, Sam
Ghantous, Anastasia Hiller, Karen Kitayama, Dan Li, Hui Li
Patrick Evan Little, Tengjia Liu, Ryan McLaughlin, Kaining
Peng, Luisel Zayas, Alexis Sablone
