If you suffer from arachnophobia then your worst nightmare has just come true. Researchers at Osaka University have developed a nearly two-foot long, six-limbed (ok, so technically not a spider) robot which can walk over uneven terrain or even move by hanging from net-shaped wires (a web, dig). The robot, intended for disaster rescue and tunnel ceiling inspection, carries a wireless video camera operated by remote control. That picture gives us the creeps, didn’t the Japanese learn anything in Son of Godzilla!?
The robot, called Asterisk, is 52 centimeters long and has six limbs with four junctures each. It carries a video camera and can be operated by remote control through video images it sends through wireless local area networks. The researchers hope to use the robot in situations such as searching for survivors in large-scale disasters and checking the ceilings of tunnels.
06-08-2005 
06-08-2005 
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