http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/liftport-viz2013-02-1111-19-30600.jpg It’s not every day you come across this sort of thing – well, not unless your friends are the sort of folks who take it up themselves to transfer space travel as we know it. We popped into Liftport’s workspace, during a recent visit to the Pacific Northwest, to check in on the progress of the Kickstarter-funded space company. Much of Liftport’s innovation is occurring in a garage loaded with arcade cabinets and pinball machines in various states of disrepair and an army of cats with various levels of polydactylism. Above you’ll find a prototypes of the the company’s various space elevator-climbing robots, which can be explored in more detail in the gallery below. We’ll have more on our visit with Liftport soon.Gallery: Visualized: A table full of space elevator robot prototypes
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