An online fundraising campaign to further develop Prosthesis, the world’s largest four-legged mech, according to the Guinness World Records, has exceeded its goal within 24 hours.
The goal was to raise $30,000, but so far, the fund is at almost $50,000.
Prosthesis, created by Furrion Exo-Bionics, a Canada-based engineering company, has been in Squamish with its team to train.
The money raised by this campaign will go toward the team's ultimate goal of creating a racing league of mechs.
Those who donate can sign up for a mech pilot training via the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.
"Prosthesis is called 'the anti-robot' because it has no automation and is 100% controlled by the person inside via the exoskeletal interface. [This is] why it is what is known as a mech, not a robot and this mech is built for all-terrain sport," reads the press release about the campaign.
With the campaign, if groups of 15 or more sign up for the Alpha Mech Pilot Training reward, the team behind the project will bring the mech to the group's city for a training session.
“The time has come to not only begin training mech pilots but also to continue the development of our technology and the human experience we have created,” said Prosthesis inventor, pilot and lead engineer, Jonathan Tippett, who has been working on the project for the last decade.
The participants of this Alpha Mech Piloting Program will help with the research and design of the second generation of mechs.
“Mech racing will be a high-powered, zero-emissions sport that is unlike anything we've seen before. Learning to pilot a mech is a testament to our innate human drive that moves us to push boundaries and achieve excellence through practice and physical conditioning,” added Tippett in the release.
The online campaign will remain open until Oct. 1.
