Dead spiders reanimated as creepy ‘necrobots’

Taking a dead spider’s lifeless body and reanimating it as a robot is an idea that would be the stuff of nightmares for most people. But scientists aren’t most people. Recently, a team of researchers turned the corpses of wolf spiders into arcade-style claw machines that could pick up and move a variety of objects — including other dead wolf spiders.   

Because it’s creepy as hell, I moved the gifs of this scientific abomination below the break…