3D Robotic Spider Creepier Than the Real Thing
Posted by Tony on July 4th, 2013A small robotics company called Robugtix is about to give everyone something special whether they want it or not…arachnophobia.
One of the company’s newest bots is named, simply and innocently, the T8. All of that simpleness and innocence evaporates quickly when you actually get to see the T8 in action.
3D-printed and housing 26 motors to move its creepy little self around, the T8 doesn’t just have the fact that it’s made to look like a spider going against it. When you see the T8’s movements is when you get to see just how amazingly and eerily realistic it looks.
For about the price of one month’s rent in a metro apartment, you can grab your very own robotic nightmare from Robugtix which can either be controlled by you like your very own spidery, robotic minion or you can program the T8 to step through a sequence you create.
Robugtix mentions how great the T8 is for someone to learn advanced robotics.
About 10 or 15 years from now, super-villains will be sitting around talking about their formative years where they all owned a small, slightly menacing-looking robotic spider they had to send away for.
[Gizmodo]
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July 4th, 2013 at 9:38 pm
Its okay for now but as soon as someone invents a bunch of robotic bananas for these to hide in we’re screwed.