Walking vehicle

Walking vehicles can provide greater ground clearance than wheeled or tracked vehicles, but the complexity of their leg mechanisms has limited their use. Examples of manned walking vehicles include General Electric's Walking truck, the University of Duisburg-Essen's ALDURO. Timberjack, a subsidiary of John Deere, built a practical hexapod Walking Forest Machine (harvester). In 2012, the Martin Montensano-built 'Walking Beast', a 7-ton vehicle with four hydraulic binary-configuration limbs, was shown at Burning Man. ==Examples==

Walking dragline excavators Dragline excavators are extremely large and heavy machines used in mining and civil engineering since the 1920s that have used mechanical "walking" for locomotion. Typically, they use a three-legged gait: in each step, a pair of elongated "feet" lift the excavator together with its base and put it back down a short distance forward. Turning is achieved by lifting both "feet" off the ground and pivoting on top of the base in the desired direction. Big Muskie (1969, 12000 t) was the largest dragline excavator, and thus the largest walking machine ever built. Legged robots The landers of the Mars 2 and Mars 3 probes carried small tethered "rovers" that were intended to shuffle on the Martian surface on a pair of skids, similar to a walking dragline excavator. Both landers failed, so the rovers were never deployed on Mars. Kinetic sculptures Dutch artist Theo Jansen has created many walking machines called strandbeest that wander on Dutch beaches. Anthropomorphic vehicles At the end of 2016, Korea Future Technology built a prototype of a robot called METHOD-1, that could qualify as a mecha. The robot could walk, and its driver could control the robot's arms individually. ==In media==

In the Metal Gear franchise, the eponymous "Metal Gear" mecha typically assumes the form of a walking vehicle. The Star Wars franchise features multiple vehicles known as "walkers", beginning with the All-Terrain Armored Transport featured in The Empire Strikes Back. == See also ==