“The small-bodied, multilegged design will allow the robot to move by manipulating its ... ReachBot is inspired by the movement of the Harvestman spider, also known as a daddy-long-legs.

Other examples involved moving small objects and even lifting ... isn’t seen with regular engineered robotic components. Additionally, while the spider carcasses themselves are biodegradable ...

A robot capable of building, or more appropriately, spinning, new parts has been developed by a team of researchers from the ...

To simplify matters, researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Terradynamics Laboratory are building crouching spider robots and testing them on synthetic webs. The results provide evidence for ...

We’ll admit it is a bit of a gimmick, but [Adam Beedle’s] Spider-Bot did make us smile. The little robot can launch a “web” and use it to swing. It is hard to picture, but the video below ...

Based in Kyoto’s Kamigyo Ward, the company has already created several compact robots that can fit themselves ... of the series and resembles a blocky spider. Its eight legs enhance its ...