Friday, 15 July 2016

Mudskipper Robot Mimics Ancient Land Animals' First 'Steps'

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A robot modeled after the mudskipper fish that "walks" short distances over rocks and mud is helping scientists understand how animals moved millions of years ago, when they first emerged from the water and transitioned to walk on land.  Observations of the African mudskipper helped scientists...

Kidobotikz- Where engineering is made less esoteric !

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It has always been the deeply held purview of educationists that the best of teachers don’t love teaching, they rather make their students love learning. The love of learning and the hunger driven by curiosity makes more often than not makes students voracious learners. While all of this sounds inspiring...

Robots come to each other's aid when they get the signal

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Sometimes all it takes to get help from someone is to wave at them, or point. Now the same is true for robots. Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have completed work on an EU project aimed at enabling robots to cooperate with one another on complex jobs, by using body language. Dimos...

Thursday, 14 July 2016

The homosapiens who desire home automation . . .

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“At the bottom, robotics is all about us. It is the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work”-  Director, Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, University of Massachusetts.   In a way, all of roboting and computing involves emulating processes or activities that...

Social robot interacts naturally with young children

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In cooperation with a consortium of European universities and companies, researchers at the Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) at Tilburg University are developing a social robot that is designed to interact naturally with young children to help them learn English or Dutch. The...

Wednesday, 13 July 2016

Geek Speak: The insatiable thirst of Curiousity . . .

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The truest fruit of technology lies in the way it empowers the human race. A technology is usually considered empowering when it can reach out to the youngest minds of the society and inspire them to add to its value. This is a fact that is reiterated day upon day at Kidobotikz. It so happens that...

Olive robotic suitcase brings new meaning to carry on luggage

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Air travel is already stressful enough without having to trek long distances through what are essentially giant coach stations while dragging a bag on wheels behind you. There have been a number of attempts to relieve this situation in recent years with foldable scooters and bags that can follow...