Mostafa Nabawy talks jumping spiders and micro-robots at TEDxManchester

01 Apr 2019

Dr Mostafa Nabawy leaves TEDxManchester jumping for joy after discussing the anatomy of jumping spiders and how this can be using in designing mico-robots

Earlier in February, Dr Mostafa Nabawy was a speaker in TEDxManchester 2019. The event took place in the Bridgewater Hall, and was attended by 2000+ TEDsters. Mostafa showed in the talk the extraordinary anatomy and behaviour of jumping spiders and how this was used to imagine a new class of agile micro-robots that are currently unthinkable using today’s engineering technologies. The talk has now been released and could be watched on YouTube.

The research on jumping spiders is one of the outcomes from the Microsystems lab. The research team is comprised of researchers from MACE and SEES. These were Dr Mostafa Nabawy, Dr Girupakaran Sivalingam, Dr Russell Garwood, Dr William Crowther and Prof William Sellers. The research was published earlier in 2018 in Nature Scientific Reports and managed to achieve a number of recognitions including being in the top 5 trending papers in Nature Scientific Reports in May 2018; achieving the highest Altmetric news mentions score for a single story ever in MACE; the supporting videos had more than 1.5 million views on social media; the paper was selected for In Abstract – Edition 6; and this research has been selected as one of the fifty three amazing breakthroughs made by researchers at The University of Manchester in 2018.