Darwin thought electrostatic force was somehow involved. Morley and researchers backed this up by demonstrating for the first time in a lab how spiders use electrostatic forces to balloon.

Meanwhile, electrostatic induction (also known as “tele-perception”) allows the artificial skin to note shifts in surrounding electric fields when charged objects near it.

Electrostatic induction refers to the redistribution of electric charges in a conductor, caused by the influence of external electric charges. Eventually, ...