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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A proposed robot that could explore Mars by cartwheeling over the surface of the Red Planet takes its inspiration from an African spider that uses the same technique to escape from predators.

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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