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

30 Sep, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH
3D Human CAD Models

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.

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