Scientists at Rice University in Houston, Texas, have created cyborg spiders that they can control, in what they are calling “necrobiotics.”
The researchers took euthanized Wolf Spiders and used them as mechanical grippers to pick up objects via the dead spider’s legs, that are heavier than the spiders themselves.
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It happens to be the case that the spider, after it’s deceased, is the perfect architecture for small scale, naturally derived grippers.
This area of soft robotics is a lot of fun because we get to use previously untapped types of actuation and materials. The spider falls into this line of inquiry. It’s something that hasn’t been used before but has a lot of potential.
Despite looking like it might have come back to life, we’re certain that it’s inanimate, and we’re using it in this case strictly as a material derived from a once-living spider. It’s providing us with something really useful.
Daniel Preston of Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering, said
According to the research collected, the robotic spiders were able to ‘lift more than 130% of their own body weight, and sometimes much more. They had the grippers manipulate a circuit board, move objects and even lift another spider,’ a Rice University press release explained.
This study received additional funding from a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity award.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
Proverbs 30:28
“It’s providing us with something really useful,” and “has a lot of potential.” -Potential? Potential for what? Do you mean you are going to use that on us now next?
Some will say that is an absurd claim to make, but with an evil and sinister mind, mad scientists will investigate how this can be replicated on much larger scales. If scientists can control remotely control a spider, some sadistic scum bucket would invest multi-billons to bring that to fruition, to keep people controlled and manipulated like a RC robot you used to play with as a kid.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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As an arachnophobe who despises tarantulas and venomous spiders that kill (tarantulas are also venomous but there’s never been a recorded death from a tarantula bite.)
There’s only one thing to do with a huge tarantula and that’s use a pistol on it.
Hey Jacob,
Did you hear about the accident today at the Canto-pop group called mirror?
A giant screen fell on top of a member and crushed him to death! It squashed him like a marshmallow in a s’more!
They’re trying to play God, but like always, it falls flat and/or becomes a Frankenstein type monster that they cannot control.
So, we go from learning about the dead body- (carbon, bio-whatever) -powered robots, to robotized dead bodies….the unbounded imaginations of men are sure something, aren’t they?
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This one sounds like necromancy to me.
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Proverbs 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
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Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
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2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;