Scientists have created a high-tech robotic spider

Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA created a robotic spider, which can be ...
Highly mobile spider easily sneaks into places inaccessible to man, based on the agile 20- cm legs, according to CNews. The robot can be equipped with a camera, a detector of radioactive and toxic chemicals, as well as devices to search for people under the rubble. Moves the robot is completely analogous to a living spider.
At the moment the development is a prototype, but some of the technological solutions that are implemented in it, is of particular interest. First of all, it's jumping ability and flexibility of the robot reached the use of bellows drive in the joints of limbs. The robot can jump, climb on his outstretched legs, turn on the spot and t. Dr..
Another important feature is the technology of robot - spider - 3D- printing process of selective laser sintering. In this process step by step on each other are applied thin layers of polyamide powder, which are fused together by laser beam. Thus you can quickly create an internal structure and components with complex geometry. This technology allows you to quickly collect the necessary number of robots directly in the field.