here we create spider-web mimics composed of elastomeric filaments. Specifically, computational modelling and microscale 3D printing are combined to investigate the mechanical response of ...

Not only can this non-living spider creep its way into buildings, but some models of it can also jump ... to the selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D-printing process, which allows the researchers ...

Using a 3D printer, researchers have created spider-web analogues out of elastic polymer threads and tweaked their architectures to maximize the webs' strength. Markus Buehler at the Massachusetts ...

He thinks of spiders as "autonomous 3D printers," constructing their webs without any supportive scaffolding, unlike manmade 3D printing processes. "So we have a material that is created or spun ...

The house of the future could be built from plastic and look like a spider's web, if one group of conceptual ... created this concept for the first 3D printed house, and say the first prototype ...

The MIT team worked with Berlin-based artist Tomás Saraceno to take two-dimensional laser scans of a spider web, which were stitched together and converted into a mathematical model that could ...

The finding came about with the aid of a 3D printed ... by a jumping spider.” In related news, Oxford University researchers have found that some species of spider tune their webs to different ...

CHANG: One day, Roessler and her team put a 3D-printed model spider in front of ... CHANG: Roessler says jumping spiders are mostly afraid of non-web-forming spiders, typically the kind that ...

Scientists have created artificial spider web silk that they say can be used ... are easily spinnable using a 3D printing setup, while also being stable enough to improve the treatment of certain ...