You’re never going to have the proportionate strength, speed and agility of a spider. But maybe, just maybe, you can have Peter Parker‘s spider-sense someday…
New Scientist has word on creator Victor Mateevitsi from the University of Illinois in Chicago. He designed “SpiderSense,” which “lets you feel how close you are to a nearby object
can even let the wearer navigate with their eyes closed.”
SpiderSense has “small robotic arms packaged in modules with microphones that send out and pick up ultrasonic reflections from objects. When the ultrasound detects someone moving closer to the microphone, the arms respond by exerting a growing pressure on the body. Seven of these modules are distributed across the suit to give the wearer as near to 360 degree ultrasound coverage as possible.”
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