Robot arms and grippers do important work every hour of every day. They’re used in production lines around the world, toiling virtually ceaselessly outside of their designated maintenance windows.

Scientists have literally reanimated dead spiders to do their bidding. In a new field dubbed “necrobotics,” researchers converted the corpses of wolf spiders into grippers that can manipulate objects.

Robotic ‘spiders’ could be the key to building large-scale structures in space, according to ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team. The tiny mechanical spiders would inch their way across large nets of fabric ...

A study on the spiders titled "Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready‐to‐Use Actuators" has been published in the journal Advanced Science. Researchers from Rice University have repurposed the ...

A spider-like construction robot designed in Australia is edging toward a role that once belonged only in science fiction: assembling the first permanent structures on the Moon. Instead of astronauts ...

Who doesn’t love robotic spiders? Today’s biomimetic robot comes in the form of Miles, the quadruped spider robot from [_Robox]. Miles uses twelve servos to control its motion, three on each of its ...

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 ...

A tiny spider inspired soft robot designed at the University of Macau can roll, climb, and even move upside down inside the digestive tract. Guided by magnetic fields and real time imaging, it may one ...

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 spaces ...

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