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Spider Bot, A knee-high eight-legged robot spider with a glowing eye cluster. Walks with a wave gait and keeps its feet planted on uneven ground.
Mech · Walks on 8 legs

Spider Bot

A knee-high eight-legged robot spider with a glowing eye cluster. Walks with a wave gait and keeps its feet planted on uneven ground.

Size
0.85 × 0.38 × 0.74 m
Triangles
1,452
Open in the lab Walk clip inside. The download carries the knobs you set here.

Tune it

5 knobs: Colorway, Leg length, Abdomen, Eyes, Turret.

Specs

Size
0.85 × 0.38 × 0.74 m
width × height × depth
Triangles
1,452
of 6,000
Draw calls
1
one vertex-colour material
Legs
8
2 gait groups
Stride
16 cm
duty factor 0.65
Foot slide
0.00 mm
limit 1 mm
Walk clip
0.4 m/s
at playback speed 1
Knobs
5
3 presets
Night lights
1
eye

Passed the validator: real scale, rests on y = 0, front faces +Z, deterministic, planted feet never slide past 1 mm.

Use it

Code for the specimen as it is set up above; it follows your knobs.

JavaScript
import { createAsset } from 'https://gaitkit.com/cdn/spider-bot.mjs';
import { walker } from 'https://gaitkit.com/runtime/walk.mjs';

const spiderBot = createAsset();
scene.add(spiderBot);                      // rests on y = 0, front faces +Z
const gait = walker(spiderBot, { ground: (x, z) => terrainHeight(x, z) });   // or omit ground for a flat floor

let dist = 0;
renderer.setAnimationLoop(() => {
  dist += speed * clock.getDelta();
  spiderBot.position.z = dist;
  gait.poseAt(dist);                  // feet stay planted, at any frame rate
  renderer.render(scene, camera);
});

More in the docs; agents can fetch all of this through MCP.

Knobs

KnobTypeValuesDefaultWhat it does
colorwaychoicesteel hazard toxic ivorysteelNamed palette for body, legs and eyes: steel (grey/red), hazard (black/yellow), toxic (green), ivory (white/blue).
legLengthrange0.75 to 1.4, step 0.051Scales both leg segments. Higher = taller, longer stride, more spindly.
abdomenrange0.6 to 1.6, step 0.051Size of the rear abdomen pod. Above 1.3 reads as a heavy carrier drone.
eyeschoice2 4 84Number of glowing eye lenses on the head.
turrettoggleon / offfalseMounts a small dorsal sensor turret on the abdomen.

Presets: industrial {"colorway":"hazard","abdomen":1.35} · stalker {"colorway":"steel","legLength":1.35,"abdomen":0.75,"eyes":8} · lab drone {"colorway":"ivory","turret":true}

Files

FileWhat
spider-bot.glbGLB, default look · 207 KB
spider-bot.mjsES module, every knob live
spider-bot.objOBJ, static, no colour
spider-bot-params.jsonknob schema, presets, night zones

Licence

Use it in games, apps, renders and client work, commercially and without credit. Do not resell it as an asset or train a 3D generator on it. The full licence.