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Biomimetics Mimicking Nature For Technological Breakthroughs
APRIL 2011: George de Mestral, a Swiss electrical engineer, invented the hook-and-loop fastener (now inseparable with the name of Velcro) by keenly observing how...
Open Hardware Sparks Innovation in Robotics
If you speak to robotics enthusiasts in India, they are sure to complain about dearth of low-cost components, lack of affordable but high quality...
Lithium-ion Batteries Portable Power Source for Portable Devices
Have you ever been in a situation where you had to make an urgent call and your cellphone ran out of power, or your...
Surface Mount technology trends in India
DECEMBER 2011: Surface-mount technology (SMT) is one of the key factors for the shrinking electronics system-level packaging. The key drivers for SMT in India...
A Truly Modular Robotic Kit
Remember your childhood, when a bucket of Lego bricks was like having infiniteammo for your imagination? Growing up doesn’t mean you have to give...
Artificial intelligence meets the real World
The word ‘robot’ originates from the Czech word for forced labour or serf. It was introduced by playwright Karel Capek, whose ficional robotic inventions...
Li-Fi: A New Paradigm in Wireless Communication
APRIL 2012: Most of us are familiar with Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity), which uses 2.4-5GHz RF to deliver wireless Internet access around our homes, schools,...
Robot Mules, Birds and Snakes Helping on the Warfront
MARCH 2012: Arecent newspaper headline blared: “Humans lose, robots win in Pentagon’s new defence budget.” The story was about US president Obama’s decision to...
Robot that can walk and jump on water
Chinese researchers have developed a microbot that can repeatedly jump across the surface of water without tanking. The researchers team from School of Chemical...
Under the hood of the “7 minutes of terror” on Mars
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, is a major player in embedded and mobile software. Wind River has been pioneering computing...