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2016
IAF's Western Air Command places all bases under drone surveillance
The Indian Air Force's (IAF) premier Western Air Command (WAC) on Saturday declared that it was putting all of its bases under a 'continuous' surveillance by drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This has been done to enhance the security cover in an
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2016
Geek Speak: Anirudh
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 su
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2016
The Great Indian Engineering Bungle ! !
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.
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2016
Volvo's autonomous truck navigates itself through a dark mine
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 foot
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2016
MIT Invented a Camera That Can Read Closed Books
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
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2016
Introducing VIPER, a must have for roboticists.
“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
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2016
NASA's OSIRIS-REx on its way to rendezvous and capture asteroid
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission is on its way. At 7:05 pm EDT, the unmanned probe lifted off atop an Atlas/Centaur booster from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. According to NASA, the liftoff and orbital
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2016
3 Ways robots are helping students
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 rathe
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2016
Geek Speak: Rakshin
It’s Sunday and weekend is already over before it began. It’s 11th hour for all those who’ve been rather lax since friday evening. Notebooks being scribbled with hurried assignments and high intensity preparations for the upcoming weekly tests are rather
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2016
Lowe's introduces LoweBot, a new autonomous in-store robot
"Hello, I'm NAVii. How can I help you?" This is how the store associate of the future may greet you. Starting in the fall, Lowe's shoppers in the San Francisco Bay Area will be greeted by autonomous robots. The LoweBot speaks multiple languages, and will
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