Even more amazing to me than the discovery is the fact that Dr. Rechenberg, who apparently also was big into the formation evolutionary computation ( http://en.

Even more amazing to me than the discovery is the fact that Dr. Rechenberg, who apparently also was big into the formation evolutionary computation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Rechenberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Rechenberg ), managed to already make a robotic model of the spider. At age 80.