The team believes that dead spiders could serve as useful actuators for small-scale pick-and-place tasks. Demonstration from the team included using a spider gripper to pull a jumper out of an ...

The robot zoo has gained another member. Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a small robot spider that can passively shapeshift, allowing it to squeeze through narrow ...

If you think dead spider robots are something straight out of a horror movie (or your worst nightmares), I have some news for you. Mechanical engineers from Rice University have actually turned ...

The SPD1 is meant to mitigate some of Japan's ongoing labor shortages as infrastructure ages and needs upgrades.

Discover the fascinating process of creating a spider robot right at home with our easy-to-follow guide! This video takes you ...

Meanwhile, the small whip scorpion —also known as a vinegarroon, due to the acidic mix with which it sprays prey—could take even less time to react to the air pressure than their spider cousins.

As if the robot uprising wasn’t inevitable enough, scientists engineered a spider-like bot that can quickly scurry up walls using magnetic feet. In a study published Dec. 14 in the journal ...

Wolf spiders are extremely common, widespread and easy to collect, so there would be a cheap and plentiful supply of spider corpses for engineers to transform into necrobots — as long as those ...

These spiders aren't pining, they have ceased to be! Inflating spider corpse creates robotic claw game of nightmares Welcome to the exciting, rather macabre new field of "necrobotics." ...

Scientists Use Dead Spiders as Claw Machines Researchers at Rice University have created “necrobotics,” a new area of research which uses biotic materials for robotic parts ...

The short answer is it can’t, which is why robotic engineers are now working on a crawling, spider-like device which could someday explore the nooks and crannies of other worlds.

Scientists have successfully transformed dead spiders into robotic gripping claws. The new field of research is known as “necrobotics” and could create cheap, effective, and biodegradable ...