Necrobotic spider

Dead spiders are being turned into creepy “necrobot” grippers by scientists

Scientists showed how the physiology of spiders can be used to make a creepy gripper capable of picking up objects that outweighs it. Source: Preston Innovation Laboratory/Rice University. Dead spiders are being repurposed as necrobotic grippers by mechanical engineers from Rice University in Houston, Texas. Necrobotics has been described as using non-living materials from once-living…