is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Why bother to design your own robots when you can just reuse what nature created? This was the thought process ...

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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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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 ...

Research on turning dead spiders into robot-claws called “necrobots” and a “smart” toilet innovation to identify a person from their “analprint” are among this year’s Ig Nobel prize recipients. The Ig ...

Researchers out of Texas explored the world of "necrobotics" and successfully repurposed dead spiders and turned them into creepy, crawly claw machines, essentially bringing them back to life. "It ...

This spidernetic technology is causing arachnophobes to lose it. Texas scientists have developed veritable spider robots by robotically manipulating dead arachnids so they can grasp objects with their ...

Spiders and I have an agreement. They stay away and I'm not forced to kill them. I like them. Really I do. I just prefer them to do their valuable work of killing insects at a distance from my ...