Siemens Created Spider Bots That 3D Print

I don't know why Siemens thinks "SiSpis" is a less-creepy name than "robot spider." Shipbuilding is a community effort. For Siemens, that community in the future won't just be the engineers, designers, and workmen on a project: it will also include an army of small robot spiders, 3D printing and weaving together plastic to build that hull. Think of it like a normal shipbuilding facility, only with hundreds of tiny scurrying parts, all working together. To accomplish this, the robots use onboard cameras as well as a laser scanner to interpret their immediate environment.