A new programmable spider robot has been unveiled this week in the form of the Xpider which is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and can be controlled by the integrated neural network.

Although we have strong suspicions that the model’s designer failed entomology, this spider robot is very cool. [Hari Wiguna] made one, and is justifiably thrilled with the results. (Watch his summary ...

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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 ...

[Photo: DIY Drones] I love robots as it is, and this little guy sparked my interest when I saw it “battling” with a cat in the video below. It can be operated with a controller or be put into ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A team of engineers and plant pathologists are developing a spider-shaped robot as the latest weapon in the war against a devastating crop disease. Curcurbits are a large family of plants that include ...

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.