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Dead spider necrobotic grippers.
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Previously:
How spiders fly - GIF and photo
Extracting spider silk - GIF
Trapdoor spider hinged door - GIF
I love how they're pitching it like this has practical applications.
I hate to be that guy, but... ewww.
If we can repurpose dead spider corpses, how long before they repurpose us?
I know they're just spiders, but should we not afford these creatures some dignity in death?
i know this ain't meant to be a philosophy forum. but I just don't love the possibilities associated with this. If you keep extending the rational (it's useful, and usefulness is more important than the dignity of the individual creature) then eventually they will start mbuilding machines from human corpses and calling it "a second chance at life" or something else as gruesome and disingenuous.
I suppose, though, that primitive cultures made all kinds of tools out of pieces of dead animals, and that they considered it an insult to the departed animal to waste any piece of it.
But if you don't have to use a dead thing, I think you probably shouldn't. Study it, adopt its elegant structure, incorporate it intoyour own work, but don't stick a handle on it and make a tool from it. It's how you get a Frankenstein's monster.
Yeah. I'm not in favor.
Intriguing, but grotesque. (The exact words that will probably be used in my eulogy.)