multi-jointed

The Crawler was a small ship, less than a hundred meters long with multi-jointed legs made for pulling it along the web like a ballet dancer tiptoeing across the void of space.

365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

The cheery-looking machine has long, multi-jointed arms embedded with an array of tactile sensors that help it optimize the lifting and carrying of humans.

Boing Boing 2009

There were machines on wheels, on treads, on tracks, on huge multi-jointed tripods, winged machines that flew clumsily through the air, and machines of a thousand other kinds and variations.

"He Who Shrank" by Henry Hasse, part 7 Johnny Pez 2010

There were machines on wheels, on treads, on tracks, on huge multi-jointed tripods, winged machines that flew clumsily through the air, and machines of a thousand other kinds and variations.

Archive 2010-06-01 Johnny Pez 2010

When people handle this model, move his jaws, arms, and multi-jointed fingers, they find themselves literally in the driver's seat of movie magic.

Archive 2006-05-28 2006

When people handle this model, move his jaws, arms, and multi-jointed fingers, they find themselves literally in the driver's seat of movie magic.

A Sense of Wonderfest, Part 3 2006

So my wife brought out her needlework stretcher frame stand, which is a weird multi-jointed wooden device, and clamped it below the top section of the music stand.

Faun & Games Anthony, Piers 1997

Suspended from an overhead branch by four multi-jointed legs, the perfectly camouflaged quilimot regarded its prey.

Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

Suspended from an overhead branch by four multi-jointed legs, the perfectly camouflaged quilimot regarded its prey.

Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

Above the seal, gleaming against night and stars, a multi-jointed metal arm reached out blindly into space.

Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994