Cobweb, the "ideological seal" of spiders.

The researchers used artificial intelligence and chemicals to study the details of spiders weaving webs, as well as the coding process in the brain.

Although some spiders can be small enough to waltz on your nails, they can perform amazingly beautiful and complex projects.

There is no doubt that this project is the spider web-a structure that has attracted and inspired the human imagination for thousands of years.

A team of scientists deployed night vision cameras and used artificial intelligence technology to study each of the eight legs of spiders during web weaving.

As a result, a model is formed, which can predict the stage of network construction according to the posture of the spider's legs.

This should help scientists figure out what happens in the brain when little spiders weave their webs in the dark.

"the first time I was interested in this topic was when I went bird watching with my son.

After seeing the spectacular cobwebs, I thought,'if you go to the zoo and see a chimpanzee weaving a web, you will think it is an amazing and impressive chimpanzee.'

Andrew Gordus, a behavioral biologist at Johns Hopkins University, said: "Spider weaving is even more surprising because spiders have very small brains and I'm frustrated that we don't know how this extraordinary behavior happens.

"now we have identified the overall layout of the construction of cobwebs, which has never been done by any other animal on such a fine scale."

Although other animals are not built in exactly the same way as humans, human construction ability is not unique.

Other primates can build nests, and so can many birds.

Some crabs build chimneys and some stone moth larvae build protective shells to live in.

But none of these are as complex, diverse or beautiful as cobwebs.

Uloborus diversus is a member of the spider family, trying to build the core of the spider web library, known as hackled orb weavers.

These common non-venomous insectivorous spiders are only a few millimeters in size and can be found in the United States and Mexico.

As orb-weaving spiders do, they build complex webs to trap prey every night.

The scientists selected six spiders to photograph.

Every night, the researchers used infrared cameras and lights to record the spiders' webs, and used a limb tracking neural network to monitor 26 points on each spider's body: the base of each leg, femur and tibia, as well as the front and last points of the body.

Abel Corver, a neurophysiologist at Johns Hopkins University, said: "even if you videotape it, there are a lot of legs to track and many individuals to track over a long period of time.

"it's too difficult to just browse every video frame and annotate the leg points with your bare hands, so we train machine vision software to detect the posture of spiders frame by frame, so we can record what the legs do to build the entire network."

In this way, the researchers recorded the structure of 21 nets for several hours, as well as the body movement of each arachnid during the construction.

This is the first step in documenting how a spider's tiny brain supports complex web construction, and it finally pays off.

The researchers found that each spider's web-weaving process involves the same movement patterns and skills, so much so that the part of the web being woven can be predicted just from the position of the legs.

This will be the subject of the next phase of the study.

The team plans to use brain-altering chemicals to influence spiders to determine which parts of the brain are involved in the web-weaving process and how.

(previously, drugs, including caffeine, have been used in spider research, so we have clues that these drugs affect the ability of spiders to form webs.)