Inducing tectonic shifts in pedagogy through robotics. . . !

When we think of the components of a child’s life, the broadest categorisation of it can be considered as Study, Play and Character Building. Among the 3, the latter two can be influenced by the parents and taken care of by them. Both Play and Character Building have their roots in childhood and the...

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Scientists develop new Robo-Salamander to study locomotion

Scientists have developed a new robot that mimics the way salamanders walk and swim. The amphibious machine, which has been developed with the help of X-Ray videos, could shed light on the evolutionary leap that vertebrates made from the water to the land, the researchers said. The salamander-inspired...

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Kidobotikz- Where Kids work the ART in SMART ! !

Ever since Isaac Asimov dazzled the world with his line of books which offered a glimpse of futurism, the world has been fascinated by Robots. For a long time time since the past century the world has been awed when any news related to the field of robotics turned up. However, this in itself has...

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Mudskipper Robot Mimics Ancient Land Animals' First 'Steps'

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...

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Kidobotikz- Where engineering is made less esoteric !

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...

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

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...

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The homosapiens who desire home automation . . .

“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...

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