They’ve figured out how to turn a dead spider into a useful robotic gripper. Scientists and engineers have long held reverence for the achievements of the natural world. Tiny insects are capable ...

Inspired by how spiders create complex silk structures, the robot uses a special kind of heated polymer to achieve this fantastic feat. Traditional robots tend to have fixed components that are ...

A robot capable of building, or more appropriately, spinning, new parts has been developed by a team of researchers from the ...

While nowhere near as lethal or prone to philosophizing as their fictional cousins from “Ghost in the Shell,” the SPD series developed by robotics ... a blocky spider. Its eight legs enhance ...