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SpiderBot experiments hint at “echolocation” to locate prey

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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are building crouching spider robots to study spiders' behavior.

They say they crouch to sense vibrations in their webs to locate struggling prey.

The crouching seems to be triggered when prey is stationary and stops when the prey starts moving.

The research was done in collaboration with two other labs at JHU.

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