Inside Adam Savage's Cave: Awesome Robot Spider!

We're in Adam's cave to check out one of his obsessions, a robot spider with incredibly realistic movement. Adam shows off the special box and platform he built to tinker and calibrate the spider, and then sends it crawling around the pool table in his shop. It's not for the arachnophobic!

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[X-Gen-]

I live in Australia, we already have those except they operate themselves.

[SkyeSpider]

I’m an arachnologist and I currently own a couple hundred tarantulas and have been breeding and caring for them for more than 20 years. I can’t get over how realistic this thing’s movement is! The designers of this have made a true masterpiece! 😳🕷

[robemmulatu]

It's all fun and games till the eye LED turns Red

[deathysmile]

the sweetest thing that adam built a box
for his pet robot spider. you really see he is a puppeteer at heart, treats all his toys with love and respect as if they were alive. I think any creators heart melts watching adam appreciate and honor their work.

[maucadete]

-So what does it do?
-It walks.
-Oh...





*I NEED IT*

[notfas]

They should make it where the two legs in the front extend upwards like it's threatened.

[dragonmaster]

put an amazon alexa into it, and make it walk around your house like a mini robot butler.

[hey]

Some one needs to make a 6 foot tall one I can ride.

[mattgoodwin]

You think this is scary, wait until a swarm of 100, 000 of these, eight feet tall, comes over the hillside, armed with laser cannons.

[gavindajyajya]

He forgets that he pre-ordered this

and I'm struggling to buy baked beans.

[jakelakota]

I can hear my mother now, "you'll spend 5 minutes playing with it, the answer is NO." *grabs baseball mitt and runs out to play

[anarkhos]

Imagine having a giant one with a belt fed machine gun on it.

[Captain-Jinn]

:orders $3, 000 worth of technology that you're interested in:
:forgets about it:
Rich people problems.

[irimiriam]

I love adam cause he can appreciate things like this in a way I cant. And it’s just infectious.

[derekpieboy]

Wow, just stumbled upon this video again after 9 years! I remember seeing this when it was first uploaded and being completely blown away. 9 year old me wanted one of these soooo bad!

[MRCOLOURfilld]

They should add a threat posture animation.

[Grain]

Imagine a couple dozen of these with solar panels, more robust construction, and various sensor clusters, deployed on other planets by NASA replacing wheeled rovers.

[tukangkomen]

Me:"mom, I hate spider"
Mom show this video
Me"mom can we buy it? Please"

[vichkar]

"We should save the animals in australia"
The animals in Australia:

[Lousidity]

Oh man, I just had the best idea - take that case design, and put a (fuzzy, maybe?) tarantula-like cover on the spider-robot... you can go to renaissance faires as a wizard with a trained giant tarantula familiar!