Geek Speak: Guruprasad

What best defines a Saturday evening? A calm, serene and ambient living room with some peaceful activity like listening to music or a some intensive hobby. That is if you are an adult. If you are student, saturday is the best time to blow off some steam after a gruelling week at school. It will be...

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Meet 'Waste Shark', the garbage-gobbling drone which is cleaning up the oceans

There may indeed be floating plastic waste strewn all across the surface of the world's oceans, but most of that trash still enters the water along the shoreline. It was with this in mind that South African entrepreneur Richard Hardiman created the WasteShark. It's an aquatic drone that's designed...

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Geek Speak: Keshav

         “The future belongs to the curious, The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it and turn it inside out.”  This interesting quote is by  Clay P. Bedford, a man who was responsible for some truly revolutionary projects like...

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Smart Helmet lets you chat to fellow riders up to half a mile away

Over the years, bike helmets have become more than just a means of protecting a rider's head, helping to keep cyclists informed about their surroundings, signaling turns and playing headbanging tunes, for example. Pulling across some features from its line of smart motorcycle helmets, Sena has...

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Will Robots take over our Jobs? So what?

Will Robots take over our Jobs? What if they do? Sounds like a very ominous scenario, doesn’t it? Well, yeah. Robots are replacing humans in a variety of scenarios. Automation is appearing everywhere. Regardless of humans and the pace at which they adapt themselves to the truth, innovations...

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Robots learn to nudge around without collisions

On the road to an increasingly autonomous future, robots and AI systems will need to be programmed to instinctively avoid collisions when they take the wheel. But if bots are designed to be too careful, performance may suffer. A team at Georgia Tech has created new algorithms that aim to strike...

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Robots have transformed agriculture. Here's how!

When we think of Farming, our mind immediately races to the images of farmers and their oxen dredging in the fields. Farming has always remained the dominion of human labour with either beasts of burden or expensive machines supplementing their efforts. The concepts of accuracy, prediction...

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