Chinese Farmer Builds His Own Rickshaw Robot

For those of you who have seen the seminal late 1980’s Japanese animated film Robot Circus, you’re going to either grin or get the chills. This Chinese farmer is pretty much building the kind of robots that… well… you might expect a Chinese farmer to build – if this was crazy-bizarro-#6-sci-fi-world-extra-nuts! But seriously, this is the ultimate in DIY, and it’s not even being done by an American artist hoping to get noticed at Burning Man.

I have no idea how to embed this video because it is from National Geographic, and evidently they have the up on making video’s impossible to embed, so here it is.