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Instead of wielding cool weapons and flashy spells, Gollum has to rely on stealth and spiderlike climbing skills to survive.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023

A blue face staring blankly from a shelf; a green spiderlike machine splaying its legs out of a basket on the ground; a delicate dragonfly robot balanced on a worktable.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023

In further experiments, the researchers tested their process on other types of virtual robots, such as adding new leg sections to a spiderlike bot and having it relearn how to crawl.

From Scientific American • Dec. 8, 2022

In early 2018, Wang and Huang Diying, a researcher at NIGPAS, separately published specimens in Nature Ecology & Evolution with spiderlike bodies trailed by long, scorpionesque tails.

From Science Magazine • May 23, 2019

A spiderlike creature made of clockwork and gears scuttled by.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi