SpiderBot comes from the Ben Gurion University’s robotics lab in Israel and it’s pretty damn impressive with a simple design that makes sense. It uses plungers to walk around like Spiderman. The plungers can pull away from a surface, reel back in and then aim and shoot with its swiveling arms. It’s slow sure, but so are a lot of spiders.

One day soon we will be seeing bots like this all over skyscrapers and bridges and the like. Hopefully not wrapping people up in cocoons for dinner.

[Dvice]