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Didn’t think spiders could get any creepier… The video taken at Rice University, shows a “necrobotic” project where mechanical engineers use a syringe filled with air to reanimate the legs of a deceased wolf-spider. The purpose of the study is to use the dead spider’s legs to grip onto items and pick them up, some even larger and heavier than spiders. Scientists said because spider’s legs work like hydraulics, they are able to make this possible by using pressure to extend and contract their lim