Just when you think you can outrun this creepy little spider bot, it pulls a Transformer, becomes a wheel and rolls swiftly in your direction. Yes, that sounds like bad sci-fi. But this is the Festo ...

For all flack that Spider-Man gets in his own fictional universe (particularly the 2007 film rendition…), there’s no denying that the ability to climb up walls is something we’re all fascinated by. So ...

If you think player-versus-player gaming is lacking in physicality, and you also have a thing for creepy robot spiders, you’re going to love MekaMon Berserker V2 (£249.99). Out now, these four-legged ...

Spiders: some people think they're cool, but most people want to squish them with a rolled up magazine. But before you start swatting, just make sure that eight-legged creature isn't a realistic--and ...

If you’re not a fan of spiders, you may want to look away now. Scientists from Festo have designed a robotic spider that can walk or roll up into a ball and somersault. The robot, dubbed ...

Meet Rapiro, the kit robot with a space inside its kawaii head to accomodate the Raspberry Pi microcomputer. The gizmo is the creation of Shota Ishiwatari, the Japanese gadgeteer who came up with a ...

TOKYO -- A team at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has developed a lightweight, spider-like robot that can carry relatively heavy objects and traverse uneven, difficult terrain, offering promise for ...

What's better than a spider-like robot? One you build yourself. A group of Croatian developers have a new Indiegogo campaign for STEMI, a robot-like, smartphone-controlled cyborg. STEMI, a play on ...

One of them had legs and ‘to be honest, looked a little scary’ — Professor Pietro Valdastri is describing one of his designs for a miniature robot capable of navigating its way through a human body, ...

Linux is ubiquitous these days. It powers large-scale HPC systems and small embedded devices—from space to underground. And although it's quite easy (to some degree) to build an unmanned device like a ...

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Robot arms and grippers do important work every hour of every day. They’re used in production lines around the world, toiling virtually ceaselessly outside of their designated maintenance windows.