Remember The “Wild Wild West” Mechanical Spider?

By Wednesday June 23, 2010





25 Comments
  1. TThor says:
    6/23/2010 at 3:55 am

    :-) ) very useful!

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  2. Benjamin says:
    6/23/2010 at 5:40 am

    Pretty slow. Speed it up and make it capable of going up and down stairs and then the handicapped won’t need ramps anymore. It will be years before it is commercially able to replace wheelchairs though.

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  3. Tippis says:
    6/23/2010 at 6:03 am

    I still prefer the walking harvester:

    (even though it never made it to the market)

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  4. bobbo, int'l pastry chef and film critic says:
    6/23/2010 at 6:03 am

    Yes, two likable stars, great tv credits===crap fest of a movie-unwatchable.

    [You've finally gone over the edge Bobbo. - ed.]

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  5. Improbus says:
    6/23/2010 at 6:04 am

    This is a much cooler, albeit smaller, “spider” robot:

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  6. SparkyOne says:
    6/23/2010 at 7:05 am

    Me and my fucking walker move faster that that!

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  7. joereiter says:
    6/23/2010 at 7:37 am

    jon peters will take two

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  8. Personality says:
    6/23/2010 at 7:39 am

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=6vR3ZFKLCpc

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  9. MikeN says:
    6/23/2010 at 7:41 am

    Better than the movie version.

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  10. MikeN says:
    6/23/2010 at 7:46 am

    The spider is a fixation of the producer Jon Peters. He was onboard with Superman with Kevin Spacey, and his version had the spider, as did The Sandman.

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  11. Buzz says:
    6/23/2010 at 8:12 am

    This kind of locomotion is MUCH easier with six or eight legs. Faster, too.

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  12. Skeptic says:
    6/23/2010 at 9:06 am

    Spider Man,
    Spider Man,
    Does whatever a spider can….

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  13. hhopper says:
    6/23/2010 at 10:03 am

    I’d hate to be stuck in traffic riding this thing.

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  14. deowll says:
    6/23/2010 at 10:22 am

    The logger was cool. It can travel over very uneven terrain and it doesn’t mess up said terrain nearly as bad as wheels.

    The ant was cool and looked like it could be used to do work but I suspect it would run out of power in minutes. I don’t think it was so much a robot as remote control.

    The first machine was pretty crude with better electronics than legs. It might had done better with six legs and a bigger body.

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  15. Skeptic says:
    6/23/2010 at 10:58 am

    Cool… we just had a earthquake. Very rare here.

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  16. chuck says:
    6/23/2010 at 11:18 am

    You could go faster if you just sat on a table and just shifted your weight from side to side.

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  17. Somebody says:
    6/23/2010 at 11:46 am

    Saw that in Star Wars.

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  18. sargasso_c says:
    6/23/2010 at 12:12 pm

    #15. Canada? We just felt that in New Zealand.

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  19. Faxon says:
    6/23/2010 at 12:23 pm

    The Army has a gas powered mechanical “mule” that is fantastic.
    Oops. Gas powered. Bad bad bad.
    Have to wait for a wind powered “mule”.

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  20. Skeptic says:
    6/23/2010 at 1:02 pm

    Sargasso, yes Canada. it was a 5.5 and near Ottawa.
    My house was swaying!

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