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2016
The Brains n Brawns behind a world record ! !
All week long, I have quite covered only about our participants who were getting their robots ready for the weekend’s event. But, what I had failed to cover was the round the clock work by a brigade of planners who are quite as enthused as the participant
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2016
Geek Speak: Sai Sujan and Sanjay
“My name is Sai Sujan. I am studying in Modern Senior Secondary School . . .” says the Kid with rejoice as the camera rolls. He is here to record a clip as a part of promotions for the world record event. He gets it right after 4 takes and he is quite
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2016
Google launches Project Bloks, a new open hardware platform for teaching kids to code
Google today announced Project Bloks, a new open hardware platform that allows developers, designers and educators to build physical programming experiences that can help kids (5+) learn to code.
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2016
11th hour rush: Registration, Robots and Reassembly.
With the deadline for the registrations closing today, it was rather rush hour at Kidobotikz. The evening saw kids and parents make a beeline to the help desk to get their robots registered for Sunday’s world record event. The fact that it was a rainy eve
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2016
Record frenzy at Kidobotikz
It’s the week of the most awaited event at Kidobotikz and the place is a beehive of activity. With less than 5 days to go for the world record event, the evenings have usually witnessed a mass influx of student coming here with their robots to get them re
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2016
Fancy footwear enables amputees to take part in gamin
When Gyorgy (George) Levay lost both hands to a meningitis infection five years ago, many people might have assumed that his gaming days were over. That's far from being the case, however. Working with two other Johns Hopkins University grad students, he'
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2016
Pebble Core Review: It isn't your average wearable
The Pebble Core is a first from the company as a non-wrist wearable, officially ushering forward Pebble's push into fitness. The little device was designed for people who don't want to be tethered to a phone but still want to be connected to the internet
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2016
Rolls-Royce predicts robotic ships will be on the water by 2020
In 2014, Rolls-Royce unveiled its vision of the robotic cargo ship of the future that it believes will become a reality by 2020. This week at the Autonomous Ship Technology Symposium 2016 in Amsterdam, the Rolls-Royce-led Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Ap
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2016
Geek Speak: Navin Arul
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” said Margaret Mead. By the looks of it, the team at Kidobotikz seems to have espoused this belief quite well.
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2016
Its CHENNAI setting a world record !! Cheer for these 101 kids !
Whenever the word Chennai is used in parlance, people usually talk about it’s Temples, Tiffins and Temperature. An often neglected “T” related with Chennai is Technology. Engineers from Chennai have often dazzled the global scenario with their innovation.
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