2 papers
cs.RO2026
Creating a biologically more accurate spider robot to study active vibration sensing
Siyuan Sun, Eugene H. Lin, Nathan Brown +4
Orb-weaving spiders detect prey on a web using vibration sensors at leg joints. They often dynamically crouch their legs during prey sensing, likely an active sensing strategy. How…
physics.bio-ph2025
Why orb-weaving spiders use leg crouching behavior in vibration sensing of prey on a web: A physical mechanism from robophysical modeling
Eugene H. Lin, Yishun Zhou, Hsin-Yi Hung +3
Orb-weaving spiders primarily sense leg vibrations to detect and locate prey caught on their wheel-shaped webs. Biological experiments and computational modeling elucidated the phy…