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Rice University Engineers Get a Grip With 'Necrobotic' Spiders
July 26, 2022
HOUSTON, Texas, July 26 (TNSjou) -- Rice University issued the following news release:

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Lab manipulates dead spiders' legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers

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Spiders are amazing. They're useful even when they're dead.

Rice University mechanical engineers are showing how to repurpose deceased spiders as mechanical grippers that can blend into natural environments while picking up objects, like other i . . .

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