SOMERVILLE Signaling the team of builders at his side, Gui Cavalcanti gripped the handle of a comically large electric drill and pressed the tool into an intricate hunk of welded steel.
“OK, safety glasses, everybody,” said Cavalcanti, 26, a 2009 graduate of Olin College, the decade-old mecca of engineering in Needham.
In stained jeans, a black T-shirt, and worn sneakers, he does not look like a Dr. Frankenstein, and the metal pieces at the business end of the spinning drill don’t look like much, either.
But the precision-cut and hand-welded metal plates, about the size and weight of an adult golden retriever, are the product of five months’ planning and work, a full-scale test of one leg of a towering 4,000-pound, six-legged rideable robot.
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