Spelunker Droid
this mining and escavation probe droid was produced by Arakyd during the years leading up to the Clone Wars. These cylindrical droids moved about on four segmented legs, and were equipped with a wide range of mineral and ore sensing technologies. When a site appeared to be worth mining, the Spelunker drilled a core sample, then placed an explosive charge in the hole for preliminary blasting, opeing the hole for larger mining equipment. Many of the Spelunker droids found in use before the Clone Wars were used by the Commerce Guild to mine inhospitable worlds. Later, the Spelunker served as the basis for the so-called chameleon droid used by the Confederacy of Independent Systems.