Japanese engineers have created an utterly creepy robot spider that’s also capable of flying around like a drone.
Listen, we’re all big fans of science here—but sometimes, science gets it wrong. Case in point:
At first blush, it seems like these scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. However, multimodal robots are highly sought after across a wide variety of sectors. If a bot is capable of moving about on the ground or on air, for instance, it allows for more use cases and flexibility in places like industry or the military.Unlike its eight-legged counterpart in nature, SPIDAR has just four legs that don’t actually work that well on their own.
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