Skitterbot - We have seen a couple of articles like the world of robotics to build the first rudimentary robots often takes inspiration from the world of Insects. Why the robotic gadgets, which of course take part in the technologies and ideas from those robots, follow this road.
For now we have seen two applications, the colorful insettini and self-Kreep and RC Tarantula, so real in the movements and appearance to seem real. What I show you today is called Skitterbot, and is a sort of fusion between the two previous robots, in fact it is an insect-like shapes and colors kreep-and radio-controlled, but as the tarantula.
The Skitterbot is one of the fastest-legged insects with commercially available, about 30 centimeters per second. The shapes are similar to kreep-and therefore less impressive and disgusting tarantula is colored plastic and you can choose from four colors: red, blue, white and green.
Despite the reassuring appearance of a hairy spider you can still use some trick to do, try to run it at full speed against some of your friend, I doubt that he will keep the pace! It moves in all directions, can be stopped at once and also acts as eyes flashing.
It does not work on batteries, it is the robot that the radio can be recharged via USB, the cables are of course included. Just connect the remote to the USB port, connect the appropriate cable to the robot with the remote control and you're done. A great gadget, fun and RC as a game is to make some joke, surely to no effect, but without the risk of fainting victim, as would happen with the tarantula, in case you have a phobia of insects and spiders.
Available on mydeskpets.com.
