How spiders build webs by using night vision and artificial intelligence.

ARTIFICIAL intelligence; ARTIFICIAL vision; NIGHT vision; SPIDER webs; ORB weavers

They found that web-making behaviors are quite similar across spiders, so much so that the researchers were able to predict the part of a web a spider was working on just from seeing the position of a leg. "Even if the final structure is a little different, the rules they use to build the web are the same", Gordus said. Johns Hopkins University researchers discovered precisely how spiders build webs by using night vision and artificial intelligence to track and record every movement of all eight legs as spiders worked in the dark. [Extracted from the article]

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