IAF's Western Air Command places all bases under drone surveillance

IAI Searcher The Indian Air Force's (IAF) premier Western Air Command (WAC) on Saturday declared that it was putting all of its bases under a 'continuous' surveillance by drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This has been done to enhance the security cover in and around the 200 bases...

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The Great Indian Engineering Bungle ! !

If we’ve had a look at the calendars today, not many of us would’ve bothered to look twice. It is a relatively normal date, September 15. But what the many of us do not know is that today is Engineer’s day, a day that commemorates the birthday of Shri. M. Visvesvaraya, a great Indian engineering...

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Volvo's autonomous truck navigates itself through a dark mine

Earlier in the year, Volvo unveiled a fully autonomous construction truck that it planned to test in underground mines and that it said would "revolutionize the mining industry." Today, it has revealed more details of the planned testing and released footage of the truck operating beneath the...

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MIT Invented a Camera That Can Read Closed Books

With help from their colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a prototype imaging system that aims to read through closed books. In their recent study, the team tested the system using a stack of...

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Introducing VIPER, a must have for roboticists.

“All good things come in small packages”. This is a famous saying that most of us are aware of. We have now come up with our own version of a “small package” ! SP Robotic Works, the parent company of Kidobotikz is proud to unveil the VIPER series of motor drivers. VIPER is a state of the art...

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3 Ways robots are helping students

Robots changing the education system? Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, the ground reality shows otherwise. As technologies advance, the presence of robots in our life will become more pronounced. But does this mean that we are in a rather futuristic situation where robots have...

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx on its way to rendezvous and capture asteroid

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission is on its way. At 7:05 pm EDT, the unmanned probe lifted off atop an Atlas/Centaur booster from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. According to NASA, the liftoff and orbital burns went off without a hitch and the spacecraft...

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