CNC Spiderbot Not Scary At All, Until It’s Sitting On Top of Your Face

by Josh on September 30, 2009 · View Comments

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So, a spider was crawling across the roof of my car yesterday. Fast and very poisonous looking. Considering what you’re about to see, I’m fortunate it didn’t hop across the hood, onto my face and start drilling another face into my head bone.

This video has been around a while, but I’d never seen it, and I’ve now watched it repeatedly to my own detriment. So, I thought you would enjoy seeing the tech, hearing the high-pitch whine of the drill as this CNC spiderbot, called the Hexapod, routes a 3-dimensional face into high density foam.

Robots with Pointy Things

Have you seen that movie Runaway with Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons? In all of its 1984 glory, it revealed the fate of humanity. One particularly disturbing scene shows the robots turning on their creator; little spider robots that inject acid. So now that you have that thought in your head… the Hexapod.

a detail shot of the 3D routed face…

You can find out more on the Hexapod Robot CNC Router here. And now, then crap-alicious footage of the Gene Simmons Robot Spider attack in Runaway…

Via Ocell

Tagged as: 3D fabrication, cnc robot, flesh-cutting robot, highspeed cnc

{ 6 comments }

mingsish September 30, 2009 at 9:00 am: The Mayans got nuthin on 80's film prophecy.
swertel September 30, 2009 at 9:08 am: I always preferred the Replicators from Stargate SG1 over other robot spiders. But Arachnophobia is still the scariest movie ever!
Josh M September 30, 2009 at 10:39 am: and don't forget 8-legged freaks. CLASSIC.
MTM February 4, 2010 at 2:04 pm: I am blown away. This is very smart yet simple at the same time. I impressed how it can maintain such accuracy with no real fixture or proper references. Kudos to the inventor.

Mark
http://mtm-cadtutorials.blogspot.com
MTM February 4, 2010 at 7:04 pm: I am blown away. This is very smart yet simple at the same time. I impressed how it can maintain such accuracy with no real fixture or proper references. Kudos to the inventor.

Mark
http://mtm-cadtutorials.blogspot.com
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