Theme park outings are stressful enough without having to think about a metallic Peter Parker killing your family members from above. Imagineers much smarter than I seem pretty confident in this thing, so I'm not exactly worried about it, but I also kind of can't stop picturing a 150-pound Spider-Man automaton plummeting to the Earth in front of a group of school children and immediately bursting into flame.

The peer-reviewed journal Advanced Science published the study, which we saw on The Verge.Last week, the official Disney Parks blog confirmed a longstanding rumor surrounding the upcoming Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure: A life-sized, animatronic Spider-Man will, in fact, be swinging above the heads of attendees as they stroll through the Marvel-themed park. Disney also released the first video footage of the gravity-defying Spider-bot, which I urge you to watch immediately because it's genuinely the most bananas thing I've ever seen and further proof that science has possibly gone too far. The researchers showed that the joints held up for 1,000 repetitions and could lift 130% of the spider’s body weight. Air pushed through the syringe thus opens the spider’s legs. Rice Universityįaye Yap, one of Preston’s students, devised a way to superglue a syringe into a dead spider’s prosoma chamber. So when the spider dies, the pressure releases and the legs curl in on themselves. A team of engineers at Rice University in Texas successfully reanimated dead spiders to complete the chilling task and released their findings in a new study. A chamber called the prosoma pumps fluid into each leg independently in order to move and flex the joints. SPIDERS just got creepier after a new video shows a zombie spider robot able to lift 130 percent of its bodyweight using dead arachnid bodies.

In case you have also wondered, the legs of dead spiders curl up because they use hydraulics instead of muscles to flex them. Preston Innovation Laboratory/Rice University Apparently these are the kinds of fun hijinks mechanical engineers get up to when they should be cleaning the lab. When the students learned the mechanism involved, they hypothesized a way to manipulate it in a lab setting. They wondered why the legs are always curled up. It all began when members of Daniel Preston’s mechanical engineering lab at Rice University came across a dead spider. It is heralded as the first step in “necrobotics,” or the combination of corpses and robotics. Scientists have repurposed dead spiders into a device capable of picking up and moving small objects.

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