After an explosion, send in a spider-bot
By: Kelsey Atherton   3 days ago
Nothing in particular about Festo, a Germany-based international corporation specializing in industrial robotics, suggests that the company has a mandate to design spider robots. Yet the company is perhaps best known for its array of bio-inspired machines, everything from ants to flapping butterflies to, now, tumbling robot spiders. The latest, straightforwardly dubbed “BionicWheelBot,†is inspired by the flic-flac spider, which can transform from normal legged movement to a sort of sideways handstand that then launches into a wheel motion.
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