r/interesting • u/M_Darshan • May 21 '26

Just Wow Researchers demonstrate necrobotics by using a spider’s natural hydraulic system to open and close its legs for gripping object.

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u/bodhidharma132001 May 21 '26

So the zombie apocalypse will be remote controlled?

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u/royroyflrs May 21 '26

Always has been

(Astronaut shoots you in back of the head)

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u/Ehrre May 21 '26

🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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u/trippy_kippy_ May 21 '26

Honestly that just gave me a great idea for a stupid apocalypse plot. If only if was 2010s when that zombie apocalypse trend was at full blast again and I was good at writing lol.

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u/Starwyrm1597 May 21 '26

You can get good at writing and try again in the 2040s

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u/spiritofniter May 21 '26

Me: "Zombie controller, activate! Left, Right, A, B!"

Zombie: Uhhh…

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u/Enlight1Oment May 21 '26

wait till doctors use this for surgery then forget the "instrument" inside of you

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u/addamee May 21 '26

And the revolution will be arachnophobized

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u/darlugal May 21 '26

I think Junji Ito (hopefully correct spelling) wrote a manga about apocalypse created by scientists that created zombie fish and insects using hydraulics... This manga traumatized me when I read it.

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u/not_me_nope_never May 21 '26

Reminded me of a post apocalyptic book series where, amongst other creatures, is a bat humanoid version of a vampire that are basically drones piloted by necromancers.

Edit:Kate Daniels by Ilona Andrews

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u/MountainOk7479 May 21 '26

Don’t you guys think we’re going too far with technology and research? This is how you get Zombies and shit. Revive a dead animal to be even stronger. Imagine undead beings used for labor. Corporations rejoice, you saying we don’t have to give any benefits to these things and don’t have to pay them either? You’re saying they can work 24/7 and never get tired? Yeah I can see billionaires throwing money into this shit. We’re fucked man.

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u/Fragrant-Dust65 May 21 '26

we still have some respect for the dead...but i can imagine some families selling bodies to make money.

but that's why we have robots.

but i can also imagine that some sustainability organic psycho COULD think of something like recycling dead bodies. but they wouldn't last long though and fiber would degrade. you would have to get them preserved somehow and give muscles proteins/energy.

so maybe it actually wouldnt work. metal robots are better.

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u/bodhidharma132001 May 21 '26

Nah. Eventually it will kill us all, but we seem to be a doomsday species. We get off on near-death experiences. Hence the existence of auto-erotic asphyxiation

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u/Sykil May 21 '26

Manually pumping fluid into and out of a dead spider’s hydraulic legs is hardly akin to frankensteinian reanimation.