A spider-worm hybrid robot was not on my Bingo card.
, the Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System modular lunar robot is intended to help NASA and other space agencies build and establish permanent Moon colonies by being able to do a bunch of different types of grunt work.
WORMS would head off that potential eventuality, MIT notes, by having mix-and-match components that can be traded in and off for whatever task is at hand — and it's about as weird-looking as one could imagine a mix-and-match lunar robot could look, too.
Team leader, graduate instructor, and PhD candidate George Lordos described the spider-worm hybrid robot
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