six-legged insectile robot
Meet Hexa, a Six-Legged Insectile Robot That's Just As Creepy As It Sounds
The uncanny valley teems with creepy humanoids--machines not quite perfect enough to be mistaken for people, but not quite comically robotic enough to be endearing. Lately, they've been joined by robo-animals, like the mechanical dog from Boston Dynamics that not-at-all-unsettlingly regains its balance if you kick it. Now, a new robot is scuttling into the uncanny valley. Hexa has six legs, looks like a bug, and moves with bizarre confidence. And it just might bring robot hacking to the masses.