In the Grip of Necrobotic Spiders

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

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 insects, that outweigh them. Anthony and Jeff discuss the merits of using spider corpses as engineering materials.

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0:00.0	It's cool and good to make teenagers famous because they always grow up well adjusted.
0:21.5	This is We Have Concerns.
0:23.2	Hi Jeff Canada.
0:24.2	Hi Anthony Carbony.
0:25.6	Hello Concerned citizens.
0:28.2	You know Jeff, I think we can agree that the worst thing about spiders is that they
0:33.0	are wasteful.
0:35.0	Yeah, the spider waste.
0:40.6	Yeah, it's really the problem.
0:44.0	When I think of spiders and all the issues that I have with them, it is the pollution,
0:49.8	the rampant littering.
0:51.5	Well, there are single use product Jeff.
0:56.4	The spiders themselves.
0:57.4	The spiders like you are referring to the fact that they had eight arms and therefore eight
1:02.9	more ways to litter on the ground.
1:05.0	Is that not, I guess six more would be the correct way.
1:08.8	That's very cool in like a 1930s cartoon sort of way.
1:12.7	I love what you're picturing.
1:14.7	Just like two of the legs have maybe boots on them.
1:19.2	Exactly.
1:20.2	Exactly.
1:21.2	And then the other six legs are being used to like drink out of mugs and smoke and throw
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