You can stop stressing out about UFOs now, because researchers from The University of Tokyo have decided we need a more terrifying concern to keep us up all night: robot spiders that can both crawl ...

Arachnophobes often cite spiders’ unpredictable movement as the basis of their fear, pointing out how each spindly leg seems to lift, flex, and probe with a menacing degree of autonomy. Perhaps ...

While we've seen a number of robotic grippers inspired by various animals, US scientists have now taken a much more "direct" approach. They've devised a method of using actual dead spiders to ...

Scientists have repurposed dead spiders into a device capable of picking up and moving small objects. It is heralded as the first step in “necrobotics,” or the combination of corpses and robotics. It ...

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Have you ever found yourself transported back to the Middle Ages, without your trusty shotgun and chainsaw hand, and forced to combat the forces of evil and their Army of Darkness? No? Count yourself ...

Researchers Indrek Must and Kadri-Ann Valdur of the Institute of Technology of the University of Tartu have created a robot leg modelled after the leg of a cucumber spider. A soft robot created in ...

If you happened to find a dead spider somewhere around your home—no questions or judgments about how the critter met its end, of course—you might notice it curled up, with its eight legs no longer ...

Boffins from Rice University in Texas have used a dead spider as an actuator at the end of a robot arm and created the field of "necrobotics" which literally means the dead could rise again as robots.

When the US finally decided to evacuate its troops, diplomatic officers, and local allies from Vietnam in 1975, the biggest problem was a lack of helicopter landing zones. The country had left the job ...