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[[File:Advs4339-fig-0004-m.webp|thumb|A "necrobotic" gripper is fashioned from a dead spider and used to lift objects.]]
'''Necrobotics''' is the practice of using [[biotic materials]] as robotic components.<ref name="advsci">{{Cite web|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202201174|title=Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready-to-Use Actuators
|date=July 25, 2022|website=Wiley-VCH}}</ref> In July 2022, researchers in the [[Preston Innovation Lab]] at [[Rice University]] in [[Houston, Texas]] published a paper in ''[[Advanced Science]]'' introducing the concept and demonstrating its capability by repurposing dead spiders as robotic grippers and applying pressurized air to activate their gripping arms.<ref name="ieee">{{Cite web|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/robot-bugs|title=Necrobotics: Dead Spiders Reincarnated as Robot Grippers|date=July 26, 2022|website=IEEE Spectrum}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/rice-engineers-get-grip-necrobotic-spiders|title=Rice engineers get a grip with ‘necrobotic’ spiders|website=Rice News | News and Media Relations | Rice University}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/28/23282023/dead-spiders-robot-grippers-necrobotics-research-rice-university|title=Scientists reanimate dead spiders as robot gripping claws|first=James|last=Vincent|date=July 28, 2022|website=The Verge}}</ref>
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