Scientists have discovered how an Australian jumping spider's semi-hydraulics allows it to speed jump long distances with ...

To simplify matters, researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Terradynamics Laboratory are building crouching spider robots and testing them on synthetic webs. The results provide evidence for ...

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 ...

[MkMan’s] LEGO spider robot combines pieces from a Mindstorm kit with a few milled plastic parts. The legs are a locomotive concept called a Klann Linkage. They operate in pairs and convert the ...