Team including Indian wins 2023 Nobel prize for humorous scientific feats business-standard.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from business-standard.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.
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Dead Spider Claws And Anal-print Toilets: 2023 s Ig Nobels barrons.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from barrons.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.