If the Worm-Bot can’t slither its way to you in time when you are trapped in a cave-in, perhaps this robot spider could get to you more quickly. (And who doesn’t want to see something like that coming at them when they are already scared and confused?) This spider body prototype is created using a 3-d printing process which is cheap and fast.
“We can use SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) to produce one or even several legs in a single operation; this minimizes assembly effort, saves materials and reduces the time it takes to build a robot. With the modular approach, individual parts can be quickly swapped as well. Our robot is so cheap to produce that it can be discarded after being used just once – like a disposable rubber glove,“ according to Dipl.-Ing. FH Ralf Becker at Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA.
P.S. No, there is no video of the spider in motion, I already checked. :/