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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dead-wolf-spiders-robots-necrobots
CheeseborgarSoop
THIS IS THE SHIT WE'RE WASTING MONEY ON WHILE KIDS ARE DYING.
ThierryVernet
Next step will be with humans... after controlling their brain already...
literallymike
This is like a horror story spiders tell their spider children.
vauhtihirmu
Jokes on them, if someone had told spiderling me I'd be turned into a robot after I died I would've looked forward to it.
Eiladar
CyberZombies are real. Because why should you have to choose between a Cyberpunk or a Zombie Apocalypse.
Boatsntoes
Sliders legs work on hydraulic pressure. It’s a simple trick reallly.
JayEnfield
Look, I'm just glad that the smooth-brain tech journalists are doing something other than fighting each other to huff Elon's farts.
PrincessPicklebricks
Why tho why are they doing this and can they stop please
Yellowchopsticks
So, using bone to make tools is okay, but using dead spiders to make tools isn't?
4vie
There is something ghoulish over it... Taking the concept of "using the whole animal" to a.... really literal degree....
positiveexposure
I'm doing my part!
jesusisherelookbusy
ClawsOfTheWolf
Necrobots....
Kalekas
Gonnae no dae that?
HamAdvocate
Well now I have a new phobia. What the fuck
conklin5
Fer cryin' out loud, just get a paper towel!
J3lek
But this is way more fun and expensive
nicholasagream
If you document it’s called a science experiment
SenselessSentiments
Not too expensive if you have a syringe lying around. The researcher says it's a "plug and play" type situation, i.e. it works right away.
TheMayorOfTittyCity
Yeah fuck you spider! That will teach to to totally creep me out all the time.
NotAHugeSpider
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
Making insects and arachnids do leg contractions is not really hard. They are literally a living hydraulic system.
moonpie1024
Zombie spiders!?!?who thought this was a good idea
ChickenChickenBurningBright
as a robotics engineer, I'm near full chub right now.
4vie
Until the cage of new "components" breaks before they've been rendered into new components....
theshrektacularshrek
J3lek
Neat. gross. useless?
coalminersknuckle
Wasnbo
Not useless. With some refinement it can manipulate electronics on a microscopic scale, and more importantly, it's environmentally friendly!
MrHappySmiles
Necrobiotics.. not raising the dead, but making them useful.
GeForcen
Fear not citizens, death does not have to end your career.
aflarge
If that's a robot then so are those plastic trash-grabbers
GeodesicCarbon
It's bad reporting. The research itself always refers spiders as grabbers
JayEnfield
Bad reporting by tech journalists. You don't say. :D
moonshadowkati
Thank you, it's really not very impressive.
aflarge
And don't get me wrong, it's neat, but spider legs are hydraulic, so pretty much the entirety of the "device" is a little piston.
vakler
Can they not?
svga
I mean asking the real questions here
BrokeMyFunnyBone
They literally can
OlderThanTheInternet
Well, what could go wrong with that technology?
CubwardOHulihan
Too busy wondering if they can but no one asking if they should.
PragmaticPrimate
They're engineers. Asking if they should isn't part of their job
vorodar
No, it's inevitable. All scientific advancement has lead up to this point. Accept dead spider robot as your master or be hugged by it.
NotAHugeSpider
kodiak931155
Ketheres
Hey, a hug's a hug. It's been years since I last got one so might as well enjoy a murderhug from a spiderbot.
AnonymousFlyingSquirrel
sassort5
Seems so stuffed it'd be the next victim of... N E C R O B O T I C S... *thunderclap*
TinyLiehon
Won't you don't can?
Mistress0fMayhem
We’ll see what we can do.
PostalHeathen
WhatAreYouTalkingAboutEh
Science!!!
OddSoull
so they are just using its limbs for hydraulics? instead of small tubes just using it's exoskeleton?
4vie
I recall reading an ealier post on the subject that idea is that the anatomy and the materials of the legs hold up better to the type of
4vie
repetitive strain certain manufacturing processes that metal or plastic really can't. So... we get this. Interesting tech, but ghoulish.
CaptainThePirate
You can’t just put an ‘otics’ on something and call it science. Bullshit, they’re making demons.
pixelsnader
Never heard of demonotics? Or necronominotics?
baldbear
Nice.
vitaminalgas
Well they are hydraulic...so it makes some sense
Marceline
Finally, now I can pick up all these spider corpses
Dolenmorgul
Strostkovy
They are literally pressurizing it's exoskeleton to make it squeeze
cornflakethief
And they convinced a committee somewhere that’s animal ballon’s was a scientific venture worth funding
CaramelizedOnions
But they had extra spider corpses so why not make it fun? /s
iananimated
You can do it at home with a syringe and two dead spiders! Fun for the whole family!
SenselessSentiments
The other way around: pressure to release and depressurize to squeeze. But yeah, that's the general idea.
jjsjosCreator
yea they are basically hydraulic
NotAHugeSpider
VictusVonGuyver
I wonder why they bothered with this when they could be researching the robotic tentacles already developed using the same principles.
baldbear
Some sicko with a scientific degree wanted zombie spiders.
SanchoPliskin
GeodesicCarbon
Graduate project about cheap grabbers for robotic arms.
Otoger
Size, and ease of use, as they can grab and carry more than they weight and cost not much,
billleyk032
Basically no different than blowing up a rubber glove.
FranxNBeans
Closer to hydraulics
Strostkovy
A leather glove
ScrapCode
a chiton glove
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WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
So spider legs are basically prehensile penises?
Crawmak
More like hydraulic pistons
maybeamonster
hydraulic penises, yes.
imsurroundedbyassholes
Is your dick full of air sir?
Feralkyn
Is yours not??
CanUWalkToTheAmbulance
…yes
TheRicM
*m'am
TacoPuncher
*ma'lady
Ig0rski
Wouldn't it be pressurizd to open? Because dead insects and spiders always ball up when dead
anyofmany
yes that is what they are doing
Roehcai
Spider limbs are basically hydraulics, but with blood. They kinda move via controlled 'erections' of their limbs!
kibos
Maybe negative pressure to open and positive pressure to close
Sevulturus
Spiders legs are held open with pressure, and close when relaxed. It's why they curl up when dead.
thetonestarr
Other way around, but yes
mity0k23
Luigi Galvani approves. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Galvani
Nikarion
Junji Ito also approves.
AvgWhiteShark
congressionalbitch
daddyslittleiceskateingprincess
This is gonna Bug me all day. What was that movie?
AvgWhiteShark
Eight Legged Freaks
daddyslittleiceskateingprincess
TheAziz
Well, the title is not wrong