Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help

Posted by zeratul on Monday November 07, 2011 @02:56PM
from the fraunhofer.de dept.

http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2011/november/high-tech-spider.html

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Re:Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help by joshu on Monday November 07, 2011 @04:01PM (#3208128)

As an expert on creepy robots (http://creepyrobots.tumblr.com) i declare this to be less creepy than expected. if it worked they'd have a video, not a picture.

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Re:Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help by zeratul on Monday November 07, 2011 @04:05PM (#3208144)

The Fraunhofer team will be displaying a prototype of the robot at the EuroMold 2011 trade fair that runs from November 29 to December 2 in Frankfurt, Germany. They have still couple days to tweak it.

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Re:Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help by rkalla on Monday November 07, 2011 @06:27PM (#3208666)

The captions on this site are most excellent.

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Re:Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help by joshu on Monday November 07, 2011 @07:36PM (#3208898)

Thanks. Sadly I haven't had the time to keep running with it. Maybe someday.

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Re:Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help by Natsu on Monday November 07, 2011 @04:06PM (#3208152)

I can only wonder what sort of toys kids will be playing with once we have cheap 3D printers and everybody can do this.

I wonder if schools will have to ban robot spiders someday?

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Re:Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help by zeratul on Monday November 07, 2011 @06:23PM (#3208650)

FYI, Fraunhofer IPA is known for their robotic arms, e.g.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdVzrSgt_Hc

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Re:Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help by mhb on Monday November 07, 2011 @04:35PM (#3208275)

Is there a video? Otherwise, what makes this interesting? And why is it creepier than any other plastic toy?

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Re:Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help by skjain2 on Monday November 07, 2011 @05:42PM (#3208515)

Saw this and thought of the Replicators from Stargate SG1 :)

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Re:Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help by rinrae on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @04:04AM (#3210006)

Creepy? Actually I think it's sexy.

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Re:Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help by nobody3141592 on Monday November 07, 2011 @06:43PM (#3208730)

I for one welcome our self-replicating Teutonic arachoid robot overlords

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