An audiovisual presentation at the stand of the Young Computer and Electronics Club shows how Spider Robot, a robotic spider with 12 micromotors that will move its joints as if it were a living being, will look like.

This was explained to Prensa Latina by Roberto Felipe, who said that it is an introduction to educational robotics and that the pieces of the spider are made in Sancti Spiritus with recycled materials, using motors from disused printers.

As it has 12 micromotors, he added, it can move to the right and to the left alike, to any position. We have not been able to import the number of micromotors required; we only have three.

That’s the only thing missing for its culmination, since all the joints of this small arachnid are made in a 3D printer. The creation does not depend on us, since the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the Government of the United States on Cuba influences the delay in the completion, said Felipe, who works in the Provincial Directorate of the Young Computer and Electronics Club.

“Children are going to like it because I have asked everyone who has been here and they have said yes,” he concluded.

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