Known as SPD1, the army of spider robots have been designed by the firm to crawl through underground pipes in Japan after a lack of workers willing to do the dirty work. Comments.

It looks like a toy spider, but this micro-robot is one of an army of tiny devices designed to travel INSIDE your body to spot – and even treat – disease ...

The first spider robot model didn't really move or change its posture; it was designed to sense vibrations in the synthetic web. But Lin et al. later modified it with actuators so it could move up ...

An army of sinister-looking spider robots equipped with state of the art cameras may soon be crawling through people’s pipes. Known as SPD1, the futuristic tiny workers have been designed to ...