Robot geniuses who created terrifying ‘spider machine’ issue major warning to others
A TEAM of robot experts has given a dire warning after their creepy crawly contraption took a turn for the worse.
Hacksmith is a company that brings fictional tech to life but the huge spider-like project became too much for the engineers.
The robotic creature is called “Megahex.”
The experts posted a 30-minute Youtube video about the project and how they spent 426 days trying to make the robot work.
Tech enthusiast Bogdan Malynovskyy explained in the video that problems first started when the spider’s legs wouldn’t move.
He said: “After we already started testing the legs, I was kind of feeling defeated at that point.
“And I was like if we’ve had this many problems already this thing’s going to be a nightmare.”
After that problem seemed to be resolved, issues with the control system began.
Once the Megahex spider was finally ready to be tested, it only managed a few moments of success before disaster struck.
The robot spider’s legs fell apart, and the engineers were left out of time and out of pocket.
Bogdan explained: “There’s no way that we could just keep on allocating so much time and so much money to this project just for it to take five steps and another thing breaks.”
He said that the engineers should never have decided to do the project in the first place.
He warned that people and businesses who embark on these projects can lose a lot of money.
Bogdan said lighting money on fire would have been a better investment and suggested others should not attempt to do the same thing without a clear plan.