Hydraumas III is a robot that walks on six feet and is already standing out as a model of innovation. Its designers, all students from Montréal's École de technologie supérieure, urged on as they were to make a robot that could serve mankind in various tasks, devoted eleven months to developing a prototype. Such outstanding perseverance earned them an award for excellence in professional standards of design, production, presentation, and technological integration. Having taken first place for mechanical design in a contest held at a recent international convention of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers held in Atlanta, the designers of Hydraumas III are now getting ready to make a four-footed walking robot, Capra.