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.

A spider gripper is used to lift a jumper and break a circuit on an electronic breadboard, turning off an LED. Preston Innovation Laboratory / Rice University Spider corpses turned into robots sounds ...

While we've seen a number of robotic grippers inspired by various animals, US scientists have now taken a much more "direct" approach. They've devised a method of using actual dead spiders to ...

Most people would see a dead spider and discard the insect. A couple of engineers at Rice University had other ideas. The engineers at the Houston university recently unveiled a study outlining how ...

If you thought that science couldn't go too far, you may change your mind soon. A group of researchers at Rice University in Texas are pioneering a new field called "necrobotics." The show's star is a ...

HOUSTON – Engineers at Rice University repurposed dead spiders as mechanical grippers. “It happens to be the case that the spider, after it’s deceased, is the perfect architecture for small scale, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Zombie spiders” being leveraged to pick up items (Preston Innovation Laboratory/Rice University) Be warned – that spider you ...

Most people would see a dead spider and discard the insect. A couple of engineers at Rice University had other ideas.The engineers at the Houston university recently unveiled a study outlining how ...