5 App Smart Hexapod & Spider Robots
0In the past few months, we have covered plenty of smart humanoid robots for kids and adults. Want to get your hands on smart robot spiders? You should give these a look:
T8X Spider Bot: one of the cutest spider bots on the market. It has 26 servo motors, WiFi, and a plastic shell.
Vorpal Combat Hexapod: an open source 3D printed robot that you can program using Scratch. You can control it via Bluetooth. A gamepad is available to let you trigger 60 different motions.
OVPiPod: the PhantomX AX Hexapod is a wonderful robot for researchers with 3 DOF legs. It has an Arduino compatible robo-controller. You can hack and control it from your smartphone.
Xpider: a compact robot with a visual interface for programming. Xpider fits in the palm of your hand and has 3D printable components.
Erle-Spider: a Ubuntu robot powered by ROS. It has 18 degrees of freedom and up to 45 minutes of battery life.
Have you found better looking spider bots? Please share them here.
