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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...
Toys Catching up with Robots
Remember the toys we played with when we were young? Small steam-propelled boats, colourful wind-powered toys like windmills and kites, mechanical toys like giant-wheels,...
Hand In Hand With GPS
The global positioning system (GPS) is a satellite-based global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that provides various types of information including geographic location, latitude, longitude,...
Maintain, Repair And Operate With ‘Smart Mobility’
As the name suggests, MRO activities involve fixing any sort of electrical, plumbing or mechanical device once it breaks down or becomes out of...
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...
How Haptics Can Help Your Project
Fundamentally, haptics is any form of non-verbal communication involving touch. Shaking hands when you greet someone is a haptic custom originated from western countries....
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...
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...
If The God of Technology Made A Wish-List for New Year…
This is what it would look like. These innovations not just demonstrate brilliance in science and technology but also a social spin and street-smart...
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...