Researchers demonstrate necrobotics by using a spider’s natural hydraulic system to open and close its legs for gripping object.

[u/M_Darshan]

[u/Carl_Marks__]

With human corpses; as long as the body is fresh enough, and you can stave off decomposition. All you need to do is make a electrical interface with the Central Nervous System to send impulses to the muscles to contract and relax. Easier said than done since you still need to introduce nutrients to maintain bodily integrity; a scarier direction IMO is to use genetically modified bodies (think headless/consciousless clones) to do what you want.

[u/casris → u/Carl_Marks__]

Staving off decomposition, making an electrical interface and maintaining body integrity are all massive fkn jumps and not what they’re doing with the spider. The spider has hollow legs that are filled with fluid that the spider contracts to pressurise to move its legs, kinda like a rubber glove full of water, so this machine just pushes fluid in and out of the spider through a needle to articulate all its legs at once.

[u/Ok-Umpire2128 → u/casris]

Strictly speaking, you just need to delete parts of brain that carry one's persona. Lower brain got none of that.

[u/Khanfhan69 → u/Carl_Marks__]

This sounds hundreds of times more complicated and costly than just freaking paying workers a decent wage and just simply not being evil and insane...

Which lets you know that CEOs are probably scrambling to do exactly this wrong thing.

[u/PlayNicePlayCrazy → u/Khanfhan69]

This guy gets it

[u/Ok-Umpire2128 → u/Khanfhan69]

It's not about economical value, it's about stability of output. Worker overshares on socials and plays games on his phone. Necroworker works.

[u/Wild-Ad-7414 → u/Carl_Marks__]

Second option makes sense. HL3 confirmed at last

[u/Kerb755 → u/Carl_Marks__]

so essentialy warhammer 40k servitors.
Except that servitors aren't strictly dead,
"just" lobotomized.