http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/ Engadget Comments for NASA's Spidernaut robot arachnid http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/Feb 16th 2006 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/Feb 16th 2006 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/Feb 16th 2006 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/]]>Feb 16th 2006 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/
To be sure... WHY?! Why would you create a mechanical version of those horrid spawns of Satan!?!?! Humanity will fall and be crushed by these eight-legged, drafted demons of death!]]>Feb 16th 2006 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/Feb 16th 2006 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/Feb 16th 2006 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/
http://imdb.com/title/tt0088024/]]>Feb 16th 2006 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/
Here's my lame attempt:
"So, here's the plan. We mount the camera here, then send it after Bin Laden. If we're lucky, and if it doesn't act like a quail, it will make it past the US Naval Observatory without taking birdshot in the chest."]]>Feb 16th 2006 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/Feb 16th 2006 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/Feb 16th 2006 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/
With the space shuttles we have now, it would probably be destroyed during take-off, and all that work would be for nothing.]]>Feb 17th 2006 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/ Ok...it looks like my Tachikoma is is coming along well enough, but I am really begining to worry that I'll be as old as Ima Kuruse before my cyberbrain is ready...

Then again, maybe not...

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/neuroscientist-aims-to-implant-electrode-in-own-brain-155091.php



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Does this really matter if it's going to be used in space?]]>Feb 17th 2006 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/or am i just dumb?]]>Feb 17th 2006 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/Feb 17th 2006 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/
genr8r- Aren't you being a little shortsighted? Do you really want all R&D to stop until a new space shuttle is created? If that happened, then sure we'd get Astronauts in space, but there would be no equipment to take with them. No robotics to support them, etc...

Besides, this robot has been under development for over a year, and at that time the Space Shuttle was still being used.
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The good news is that since zombies can do their evil in space as well as on terra-firma, this spider-bot will be ready for them. There's no better weapon against a zombie than to wrap it up in webbing just before you dispatch it old-school.]]>Feb 17th 2006 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=RiSE
http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/ClimbingRobot
There are several more team members, whose links I can't include here.
]]>Feb 17th 2006 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/16/nasas-spidernaut-robot-arachnid/too much wrong with this spider to list. out]]>Jan 11th 2007 8:20AM