[Eric Gregori] recently spent some time messing around with a Hexbug Spider, and wrote in to share some modifications he made to the toy. In its unaltered form the robot can be controlled remotely ...

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

This causes the dead spider to act like a robot gripper, just like you might see on an skill tester arcade machine. Researchers worked with wolf spiders, and began by euthanizing them in cold ...