A robot from Carnegie Mellon takes the snake-bot concept and uses the twisty robo-critters as legs for a strange new machine.

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has created a new robot that has six legs, looks creepily like a spider when it walks, and is dubbed "Snake Monster". Not exactly endearing traits, but the Snake ...

It’s more spider than snake, but a robot called Snake Monster can dial up the creep factor when it crawls around on six legs. The latest creation to come out of the Carnegie Mellon University ...

If your big kids love “The Wild Robot” series, your little ones will adore this new picture book version for young readers. Note that this is not a new part of the series – it is an adaptation of the ...

SpiderBot experiments hint at “echolocation” to locate prey Experiments with robotic spiders and prey suggest spiders can detect differences in natural web frequencies.

Just watch the leg animations, okay? Unless you don't like spiders. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Factorio launched out ...

One day, they hope this spider-like design could even help robots navigate the icy caverns of the moon and Mars. How does the spider robot work?

As if the robot uprising wasn’t inevitable enough, scientists engineered a spider-like bot that can quickly scurry up walls using magnetic feet. In a study published Dec. 14 in the journal ...

Spider corpses are also biodegradable, which Preston argues makes them better for the environment than other robot parts – which often result in e-waste.

A team of engineers and plant pathologists are developing a spider-shaped robot as the latest weapon in the war against a devastating crop disease.

The robot monster Moguera made his debut in Toho’s 1957 non-Godzilla movie The Mysterians, but he was reimagined during the Heisei Era as an alternative to Mechagodzilla, which had not been able ...

When 14-year-old Hudson Rowan drew his spider-robot-humanoid character for an "I Voted" sticker competition, he didn't realize just how far the illustration would travel.