The spider-gripper also proved to be surprisingly robust, completing 1,000 open/close cycles before the wear and tear on the joints caused the body to break down after a couple of days.

Taking a dead spider's lifeless body and reanimating it as a robot is an idea that would be the stuff of nightmares for most people. But scientists aren't most people.

Closeup of a tarantula with 6 legs running alternating between running on four and two legs, as if they were limping (slowed ...

The injected air pressurizes the dead spider's hemolymph (a rough analog of blood) that hasn't yet dried up in the corpse. The hemolymph adds pressure to the joints, creating a claw-like grabbing ...

A recent study uncovers three sea spider species that depend on methane-eating microbes for food, offering insight into ...

They work to both flex and then extend the elbow joint. But when you think about spiders, they have flexor muscles that will bring their joints and appendages in towards the body, but they don't ...

They work to both flex and then extend the elbow joint. But when you think about spiders, they have flexor muscles that will bring their joints and appendages in towards the body, but they don't ...

Giant huntsman spiders are the largest member of the huntsman spider family Sparassidae with a leg span stretching up to 12 inches across — roughly the size of a dinner plate.

This new 3D-printed SpiderBot has better range of motion and hence a deeper crouch, with a connecting cable actuating a motor inside the robot's body to make all eight legs bend like actual spiders.

They work to both flex and then extend the elbow joint. But when you think about spiders, they have flexor muscles that will bring their joints and appendages in towards the body, but they don't ...

They work to both flex and then extend the elbow joint. But when you think about spiders, they have flexor muscles that will bring their joints and appendages in towards the body, but they don't ...