Johns Hopkins builds a spider robot that locates prey on a web like orb-weavers
_krishna_murthy · x · 2026-10-29
Johns Hopkins researchers unveiled a spider robot that detects the location of a prey robot on a web, mimicking how orb-weaving spiders find prey. The team says the findings could inform next-generation robotic sensors; the demo was shown at Chen Li's terradynamics lab.
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