A Spider’s Upside Down Life May Be The Most Energy-Efficient |
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| By Michael d'Estries in Energy | March 27, 2008 | |
Don’t ever laugh at spiders just because they see the world a bit different than you. New research shows that that certain spider species that live upside-down are more energy efficient. While this might not matter in the least to most people, it does present new energy-saving potential in the field of robotics. From Popular Science,
Scientists in Spain and Croatia have found that certain spider species that feed, breed and travel upside-down are more energy efficient because of it. For the spiders, it turns out, walking is more of a swing—they use gravity to their advantage. The interdisciplinary team of scientists—which included an astrophysicist, for some reason—studied more than 100 spider species, and found that the longer legs of the upside-down spiders enable more efficient inverted travel thanks to these pendulum mechanics, but that they aren’t so great for scurrying along the floor.
While we here at Groovy do not condone living your life upside-down (though those of us with little kids probably have the greatest experience), we do hope you’ll follow the spider’s example of saving energy where at all possible. And should this research lead to a new breed of killler-spider robots, please remember we warned you.
At least they’ll be eco-friendly.
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