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If you really hate spiders, you might want to stay away from this one. Mechanical engineers at Rice University have figured out a way to turn dead spiders into "necrobotic" grippers. Yep, you heard that one right., which researches robots made from nontraditional, soft materials. And flesh, even from spiders, is pretty soft.
"When they die, they lose the ability to actively pressurize their bodies," said Faye Yap, the study’s lead author, in aApparently, this makes their corpses have the "perfect architecture" for repurposing into terrifying little grabbers.The engineers stuck a needle into the hydraulic chamber of a wolf spider’s corpse, sealed it off with superglue, and used the needle to deliver air into the chamber, granting control over the legs.
"This area of soft robotics is a lot of fun because we get to use previously untapped types of actuation and materials," said Daniel Preston, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rice University, in the release. "The spider falls into this line of inquiry. It’s something that hasn't been used before but has a lot of potential."
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