World's Largest Walking Dragon Robot

A Germany Firm Zollner Elektronik AG, an electronics maker, has made the fiction stories dragon in real life. Tradinno, the dragon is 51 feet long and has a wingspan of 40 feet launched on the streets of Germany and It has been recorded as the World's Largest Walking and breathing Fire Robot according to 'Guinness World Record 2014' book

This dragon can walk and flip its wings and breathe fire from its mouth and nostrils. It is 11-ton machine which makes it impossible to fly.

Specifications:

The dragon is a radio-controlled robot running on a 2.0-liter turbo diesel engine with two hydraulic circuits, 272 hydraulic valves, 65 animated axles, and 238 sensors, according to Zollner Elecktronik AG. It has 984 feet of hydraulic lines, more than 4,200 feet of electric cables, and 360 feet of pneumatic lines.

The dragon itself has both hydraulic and electronic components, and has nine separate controllers, each containing two TI processors and a Fujitsu microcontroller, and has 238 separate sensors for determining the environment around it. It fully walks with all four legs, each of which has 7 degrees of freedom, which leads to a pretty lifelike gait.

Tradinno's wings are sheathed in polyurethane and reinforced plastic. Its main function is to act in a play, so veins are filled with 21 gallons of stage blood, while 24 pounds of liquid gas allow it to spit fire.

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