Spiders are notorious for making people jump.

But now scientists at the University of Manchester have turned the tables, training a jumping spider to leap between platforms on command so they could film its super-springy take-off and flight.

It wasn’t easy. Several of the early spiders simply wandered away from the platforms, while others sat stubbornly still, baffled by the task of bounding on cue.

However after several weeks of gentle encouragement, star arachnid Kim, finally began to spring from one ledge to the other, allowing scientists to record, monitor and analyse a spider’s movement in high-resolution 3D for the very first time.