Robotic spider like machines could help build gigantic space structures

04/06/2015 - 00:00


By Mike Wall -

Humanity could soon be building huge structures in space one piece at a time, the way spiders spin their webs here on Earth.

A company called Tethers Unlimited is developing an in-space manufacturing system called "SpiderFab," which would use arachnidlike robots to put together large objects in orbit or beyond.

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