Looks like we both have to be right. A spider uses hydrostatic pressure to extend its leg, but muscles to retract it. I guess now that it's dead it could be using hydrostatic pressure for both movements, either way this is really creepy. Who thought you could make spiders even more creepy
The muscles are always retracting and the hydraulic pressure negates it. That is why spiders curl up when they die, and why the readout on the bottom has 0 pa when gripping.
Ikitsumatatsu
Zombie spiders, just what we needed
DickLaurantIsDead
Well, THAT'S some nightmare fuel!
kaltralliart
suitable for a little creepy skill tester machine
galapas
Is this the one that bit Peter Parker?
GanjaPlanet
Elon Musk is taking notes and ordering more Ketamine.
WoodyGoodman
ApothecaryGrant
Also the name of my mom's death metal band.
Wasnbo
Uses a bit of air. It's a little weird and hard to properly apply yet, but IMHO there's potential. https://phys.org/news/2022-07-necrobotic-spiders-dead-legs-puff.html
dynamojoe
You're dead, but you still gotta go to work in the morning.
NebulousToucan
I'm still at a loss at what the possible sensible application of this would be
Newitt
Technology demonstration.
NebulousToucan
Demonstration sure. And what real world use that isn't a demo for how it works?
nobodyspecial995
Necrobiotic, so the things stabbing into him is an electrical apparatus that triggers his nerve systems, but the spider is dead?
ioncewBaroness
Liquid I believe
Newitt
Either that or it's hydraulic, pumping the body with fluid to expand it, and sucking the fluid out to contract it.
whateverthevoicestellme
Yeah, cuz Pascals are pressure, so seems more likely.
nobodyspecial995
Looks like we both have to be right. A spider uses hydrostatic pressure to extend its leg, but muscles to retract it. I guess now that it's dead it could be using hydrostatic pressure for both movements, either way this is really creepy. Who thought you could make spiders even more creepy
ExecutiveProducerWolfDyck
The muscles are always retracting and the hydraulic pressure negates it. That is why spiders curl up when they die, and why the readout on the bottom has 0 pa when gripping.
kumagororyu
Either way: