Might take the CGI with a grain of salt though. AFAICT the company has existed for 4 years, has 7 employees and no actual office address. They own zero physical assets. Seems most likely they're trying to do just enough to get some patents so they'll be bought out by one of the large offshore service companies and make a nice profit.
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I was thinking more towards the strandbeest series (https://www.strandbeest.com/), although those have entirely too many legs to be spiders and are also not made out of aluminium.
You're not unreasonable for expecting something at least vaguely spider-like. This just looks like a big crane for assembling big wind turbines.
Is the "spider" part supposed to be the web-like aluminum frame of the crane? That seems like a stretch, but it's the most charitable interpretation I've got.
Floating wind turbines can power themselves, and therefore, as long as there is at least a little wind, and they have some small propellers on the bottom, get anywhere in the world.
That seems to make installation and maintenance super cheap - you can build them anywhere in the world, command them to sail themselves to the right place, and just have a ship come by and hook them up to the power grid in perhaps an hour per turbine.
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Anyway, neat crane idea.
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Is the "spider" part supposed to be the web-like aluminum frame of the crane? That seems like a stretch, but it's the most charitable interpretation I've got.
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Out of context, that sounds like a kite. Can it be used in locations that are not very windy (like, for example, space)?
https://wiki.factorio.com/Spidertron
I have to say… WindSpider is a pretty weird name for this. If anything I'd say it looks a bit more like an abstract bird/crane.
That seems to make installation and maintenance super cheap - you can build them anywhere in the world, command them to sail themselves to the right place, and just have a ship come by and hook them up to the power grid in perhaps an hour per turbine.
When edge cases become catastrophic, engineering gets hard.
https://evil.fandom.com/wiki/Spider_Tank_(Wild_Wild_West)
Or heck, even go for "Spider Web Crane" if they love the word "spider" so much.