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2016
Roving robots roam your clothes
If you don't like the thought of bugs crawling all over you, then you might not like one possible direction in which the field of wearable electronics is heading. Researchers from MIT and Stanford University recently showcased their new Rovables robots, w
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2016
Kit Creatives: Living room gadgets
We’ve seen a variety of car related themes on Kit Creatives over the last two weeks. How about taking the fun indoors and making some interesting themes that can make your living room tech savvy? It certainly would be cool if we could make some project
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2016
CubeSats could soon be zooming around space under their own power
Rubik's-cube-sized CubeSats are a nifty, cheap way for scientists to put a research vessel into space, but they're limited to orbiting where they're launched – until now. Los Alamos researchers have created and tested a safe and innovative rocket motor co
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2016
Harvard researchers 3D print a heart-on-a-chip
Microphysiological systems, or organs-on-chips, are emerging as a way for scientists to study the effect that drugs, cosmetics and diseases may have on the human body, without needing to test on animals. The problem is, manufacturing and retrieving data f
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2016
The Calicut Diaries: Fond memoirs . . . .
It’s a warm tuesday morning and an evening has elapsed since the victorious contingent returned back to Chennai after a memorable journey! Their bags probably still remain unpacked, but so should be their spirits for it was an event that will talked about
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2016
Unmanned Warrior puts the future of marine warfare to the test
What will the Royal Navy look like in 2036? This month's Unmanned Warrior 2016 exercise taking place off the West Coast of Scotland might provide some of the answers. The Navy's first ever large scale demonstration of marine robotic systems not only showc
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2016
The Calicut diaries: Kidobotikzians@Tathva '16 (Contd....)
What word has two ‘O’s and an ‘R’ in it? You are thinking of the word “Robot”. Nope, we are talking of the other word- “Hooray”! Yes, “Hooray” it was! The bandwagon of roboticists at NIT-C have finished their campaign and are now retiring to the s
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2016
Autonomous tricycles could form the basis of urban taxi systems
Self-driving cars, trucks and buses might get the bulk of the headlines, but a team at the University of Washington Bothell (UWB) is developing a smaller kind of autonomous vehicle. With the aim of providing a relatively inexpensive alternative to owning
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2016
Robotic arm gives quadriplegic man a new sense of touch
In 2012, quadriplegic Jan Scheuermann used her own thoughts to control a robotic arm and feed herself a chocolate bar thanks to a system developed by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Now
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2016
The Calicut diaries: Kidobotikzians@Tatva '16
<b></b>A trip to the “God’s Own Country” is usually one that nobody affords to miss. All of us who’ve been there can relate to the beautiful beaches, the lovely shorelines and the wonderful weather. But when you also roboting into this mix, it becomes an
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