Friday, 16 September 2016

Geek Speak: Anirudh

06:34 Posted by Anonymous No comments
When one thinks of schooling and the fun associated with it, it is usually only till grade ten. All the fun and frolic the school life can give is usually done by the end of class 10. After that it’s only board exams, then a major leap in the toughness subjects in class 11 and bam comes class 12 where...

Thursday, 15 September 2016

The Great Indian Engineering Bungle ! !

06:41 Posted by Anonymous 1 comment
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...

Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Volvo's autonomous truck navigates itself through a dark mine

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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...

MIT Invented a Camera That Can Read Closed Books

06:12 Posted by Anonymous 4 comments
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...

Introducing VIPER, a must have for roboticists.

01:52 Posted by Anonymous 2 comments
“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...

Tuesday, 13 September 2016

3 Ways robots are helping students

08:56 Posted by Anonymous 2 comments
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...