of Frankenstein’s monster, it can’t seem to scare Nocturnal’s cat. “I’m also rather proud of SpiderSapien,” says Nocturnal, talking about his modded bot that moves with the legs of a spider. “He has some center of gravity issues, as well as a...

flaks didn’t know? — Reclusa is also the species name of the venomous brown recluse, or violin spider, “Loxosceles reclusa.” “Loxosceles” means with slanting legs, and “reclusa” is because of their shy nature. Recluse spider bites usually result...

software is. In my case, I turned it on, went to get something to eat and returned two hours later to see if it caught anything. Imagine my surprise when it picked up a spider moving on my desk and then on my keyboard - apparently trying to type his name. I...

Grand Challenge contestants must avoid all parked vehicles. Several parked junk cars and minivans were strewn around the field. While they were easy obstacles to detect, some of the robots collided with the cars. Team Cornell's vehicle, Spider, bumped a...

serially controlled servo technology. This allows the user to construct a wide variety of robot configurations, including the autonomous exploration robot, quadruped puppy robot, hexapod spider robot, dinosaur robot and bi-pedal humanoid...all with one controller...