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You might want to have the spidey-sense to stay away from this one: engineers at Rice University have turned dead spiders into “necrobotic” grippers.

Scientists Turn Dead Spiders Into “Necrobotic” Arachnoborgs

By Frank Landymore

Army engineer Frank Gardea is developing self-reconfiguring and self-repairing materials to make robots that he says are inspired by the Terminator.

Robots and Machines

US Army Scientist Brags That He’s Trying to Build the Bad Guy From “Terminator 2”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists managed to make a robot out of an edible gel that could improve veterinary care and make for new children's toys.

Yum, Delicious: Inventors Built an Edible Robot

By Dan Robitzski

A soft robot tendril wraps its way around a plant vine.

This Soft Robot Mimics Plant Tendrils To Creep and Climb

How Killer Robots Will Know They’ve Been Blasted With a Shotgun

How Killer Robots Will Know They’ve Been Blasted With a Shotgun

By Dan Robitzski

We Now Have Soft Robots With a Sense of Touch. But Why?

We Now Have Soft Robots With a Sense of Touch. But Why?

By Chelsea Gohd

Robots will benefit from this hydrogel.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Manipulated a Material for Robots That Grows Like Human Skin

New Artificial Muscles Lift 1000 Times Their Own Weight

Robots and Machines

New Artificial Muscles Lift 1000 Times Their Own Weight

By Chelsea Gohd

This 3D-Printed Human Heart Can Do Everything a Real One Can

This 3D-Printed Human Heart Can Do Everything a Real One Can

By Chelsea Gohd

Scientists Just Created a Material for Self-Healing Smartphones

Science & Energy

Scientists Just Created a Material for Self-Healing Smartphones

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Health & Medicine

This Device Hugs the Heart to Make It Pump Blood

By Kathleen Riley

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Researchers Made a Robotic Hand That Mimics Human Touch

By June Javelosa

Harvard Made the World’s First All-Soft Robot. It’s Autonomous and It’s Adorable

Harvard Made the World’s First All-Soft Robot. It’s Autonomous and It’s Adorable

By Patrick Caughill

Scientists Just Made A Tiny Robotic Caterpillar That’s Powered By Light

Scientists Just Made A Tiny Robotic Caterpillar That’s Powered By Light

By Jelor Gallego

Soft Robotics Allows Scientists to Reach Out and “Touch” Sealife

Soft Robotics Allows Scientists to Reach Out and “Touch” Sealife

By Jelor Gallego