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Welcome to another edition of the Cool Stuff Ride Home podcast.

I'm Marcus Paff, joined by Reggie Rizzou.

Coming up on today's episode, Dead Spiders Find New Life as Robot Arms, plus Uber no longer

just for rides and food delivery. it may soon be able to help you

change a light bulb or assemble furniture. In the UK, a frightening discovery at 13,000 feet,

and several miles above that, NASA's Martian spacecraft are taking a two-week vacation

from orders. All that and this week in history coming up.

Well, spiders aren't the most cuddly creatures and some might argue that the only good spider is a dead one.

That's not exactly the mindset of Fay Yap and Daniel Preston at Rice University in Texas,

but they've certainly found an interesting use for spiders that are no longer

among the living. An NPR report detailing their story of reanimating spider corpses for the purposes

of gripping delicate objects. For some background, Yap is a mechanical engineering PhD student

in Preston's lab at Rice, where she co-authored a paper on the subject.

The two coined the term necrobotics to describe this use of biotic materials for robotic parts.

They believe the technique could one day become a cheap and environmentally friendly addition to the field.

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