Rice University mechanical engineers are showing how to repurpose deceased spiders as mechanical grippers that can blend into natural environments while picking up objects, like other insects, that outweigh them.
An open-access study in the journal Advanced Science outlines the process by which the researchers Preston and Faye Yap harnessed a spider’s physiology in a first step toward a novel area of research they call “necrobotics.”
Credit: Brandon Martin
Credit: Preston Innovation Laboratory
Research Paper: Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready-to-Use Actuators
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