Spider-Bot is a robotic terrestrial drone made largely of 3D-printed parts and being developed by Janesville’s technical manufacturing startup GLW Technologies, one of the newest tenants of the Janesville Innovation Center.
It’s just one project the company hopes will end up in the hands of space explorers on missions to the moon and beyond.
GLW moved from Madison to the Janesville Innovation Center last fall. Late last year, the company launched a new partnership with Colorado-based aerospace startup Lunar Outpost to design suspension components for a lunar rover robot, GLW owner Nick Shepherd said.
Lunar Outpost’s robot could land near the moon’s south pole in 2023 under a contract with NASA to collect rock and soil samples from the lunar surface.