If you’re driving down North Fifth Street in Springfield, watch out for the giant attack robot.
At roughly 10 feet tall, it’s hard to miss, standing on the east side of the street with one menacing, red eye visible behind a metal visor.

The robot is guarding the end of the driveway of its creator, Travis Taylor, a handyman-turned-artist who works out of a shed behind his house.


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Taylor said he built it mostly from a broken-down motorcycle his nephew was hoping to restore. “He was gone one day, and I had some metal laying around and got to thinking about it,” Taylor said. “I just chopped it up and started building it.” The final product has recognizable motorcycle parts: the gas tank is the head, the exhaust pipes extend down the back like a jet pack, the drive chain is draped through an arm-mounted Gatling gun like an ammunition belt. But there are non-motorcycle parts, too. The pelvis is made from a piece of an old weight-lifting machine, and there’s a large soup can in the middle of the torso.

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