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High-Tech Spider For Hazardous Missions


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Robot spider

Credit: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Spiders are agile, and some can even jump. They owe this capability to their hydraulically operated limbs. Researchers have now designed a mobile robot modeled on the same principle that moves spider legs. Created using a 3D printing process, it can explore terrain that is beyond human reach.

From Fraunhofer-Gesellschaf
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