Posted on 04/18/2017 6:18:03 AM PDT by C19fan
A nightmare-inducing robot tarantula has been built using a 3D printer.
The all-terrain machine, which weighs less than 5 kilograms (11lbs), can climb tricky surfaces like rocks and stairs with ease.
It runs using 18 different motors that help it move smoothly over uneven surfaces.
The motors give the robot exceptional flexibility and even appear to make it dance in a video of the strange machine.
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Six-legged tarantulas cause Global Warming!
Neither science nor journalism are what they used to be.
Where are the other two legs?
Damned impressive. Somehow, I don’t think he got “eddikated” in a university teaching “studies”.
Aw this isn’t nearly as bad as I thought.
Neat little machine, but it doesn’t really look like a tarantula, at all.
(thank goodness)
Terrifying? What Hasbro made as toys in the 70’s strikes fear into our society today.
See “Runaway” with Tom Selleck. I think Gene Simmons played the villain...
Finally! A roomba that vacuums stairs!
The basis for an all terrain conveyance which can transport a paraplegic? Doc Ock minus two?
Spiderbot, you mean spider tank?
Like a Tachikoma!
That’s what I want to see.
Biggest hole in the recent Ghost in the Shell film, a.k.a. female Robocop, since it was not a total cyberization.
No Tachikomas! That’s an outrage!
If this toy could accelerate from 0 to 60 in 5 seconds and go 100 mph, I’d be a tad more terrified.
Tachikoma tend to take leisurely rides around the neighborhood and develop personalities under certain circumstances.
Daily Mail seems to have really gotten into declaring all robot footage scary.
When they start powering these things with nuclear, I’ll be impressed.
7.62 x 39......the whole damn mag.
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