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.

Boffins from Rice University in Texas have used a dead spider as an actuator at the end of a robot arm and created the field of "necrobotics" which literally means the dead could rise again as robots.

Researchers Indrek Must and Kadri-Ann Valdur of the Institute of Technology of the University of Tartu have created a robot leg modelled after the leg of a cucumber spider. A soft robot created in ...

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 ...

A spider-like construction robot designed in Australia is edging toward a role that once belonged only in science fiction: ...

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On a dusty test site in Australia, a spider-like robot is quietly rewriting the rules of construction, extruding walls in ...

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 ...

YouTubers are known for their larger-than-life persona and over-the-top shenanigans. And this time, content creator Hacksmith Industries just created something unprecedented and unexpected in the form ...