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Counting nose hairs in cadavers, repurposing dead spiders, and explaining why scientists lick rocks are among the winning achievements in this year's Ig Nobels, the prize...
A team of scientists from India, China, Malaysia, and the US has won the Ig Nobel Prize in the mechanical engineering category for their study on repurposing dead spiders for gripping tools. The Ig Nobel Prize celebrates humorous and trivial scientific achievements. The researchers from Rice University developed a necrobotic gripper capable of grasping objects with irregular geometries and camouflaging in outdoor environments.
Reanimating dead spiders to use them as robot claws, licking rocks, backwards talking and a toilet that scans "anal-prints": this year's Ig Nobel prizes again put a spotlight on the quirky side of science.- Reanimated spider claw machine - The mechanical engineering prize went to US researchers who re-animated dead wolf spiders to use them as mechanical gripping tools, similar to the claw machine game seen in arcades.
The annual awards for quirky scientific research were given out this week, and as usual, they blended the bizarre, humorous, and unexpectedly insightful.