--- title: Intel Powered Robotic Spider Dress Smacks People Invading Personal Space description: Dress of the future solves problems of today canonical: https://time.com/3652213/smart-robotic-spider-dress/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-02T16:51:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:38.766Z og:title: This Dress Will Conveniently Smack Anyone Who Invades Your Personal Space og:description: Dress of the future solves problems of today og:url: https://time.com/3652213/smart-robotic-spider-dress/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20dcac330fc16669/698777e02dce0181219dcbcc/screen-shot-2015-01-02-at-11-02-27-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-01-02 at 11.02.27 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Dress Will Conveniently Smack Anyone Who Invades Your Personal Space twitter:description: Dress of the future solves problems of today twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20dcac330fc16669/698777e02dce0181219dcbcc/screen-shot-2015-01-02-at-11-02-27-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Dress Will Conveniently Smack Anyone Who Invades Your Personal Space by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jan 2, 2015 4:51 PM CUT  Vimeo by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jan 2, 2015 4:51 PM CUT This high fashion, futuristic dress will wage battle against what is by far the worst breed of space invaders — personal space invaders. Forget about [smart shirts](http://www.hexoskin.com "undefined") that track your breathing and [smart pants](http://www.businessinsider.com/fashion-designer-adrien-sauvage-and-microsoft-create-first-wireless-phone-charging-pants-2014-6 "undefined") that charge your phone. Dutch designer [Anouk Wipprecht](http://www.anoukwipprecht.nl/ "undefined") has finally created wearable technology that not only doesn’t look like yoga clothing overstock, but also serves a greater purpose: Literally slapping away creepers that get in your grill. “The dress provides an extension of the wearers intuition: It uses proximity sensors as well as a respiration sensor to both define and protecting the personal space of the wearer,” Wipprecht [writes](http://vimeo.com/114828162 "undefined") of the Robotic Spider Dress. “Approach the wearer to aggressively and the mechanical limbs move up to an attack position.” But the exoskeleton-like dress, which will be shown for Intel at [CES](http://www.cesweb.org "undefined") for from Jan. 6-9, can also assist in the art of seduction. “Approach the system under calmer circumstance and the dress just might beckon you to come closer with smooth, suggestive gestures,” she continues. 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