The researchers trained the spider, which they nicknamed Kim, to jump different heights and distances on a manmade platform in a laboratory environment. Kim belongs to a species of jumping arachnid ...

Spiders in Focus Jumping spiders are ornamental and agile ... where I spied this thumbnail-size Phidippus putnami (above). Now that I know where they are—their silhouettes are often visible ...

‘For our robotic spiders research we are looking at a specific species of jumping spider called Phidippus regius. We have trained it to jump different distances and heights, recording the spider’s ...