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Kwabena Boahen: A Computer that Works Like the Brain [Video]
Kwabena Boahen wants to understand how brains work — and to build a computer that works like the brain by reverse-engineering the nervous system. His group at Stanford is developing Neurogrid, a...
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Ron Eglash: The Fractals at the Heart of African Designs [Video]
Ron Eglash is an ethno-mathematician: he studies the way math and cultures intersect. He has shown that many aspects of African design — in architecture, art, even hair braiding — are based on perfect...
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‘First Look’ Robot Does the Dirty Work For You: the use of remote-controlled robots has increased dramatically in recent years, serving as a vital tool for bomb removal, hostage situations and even...
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Africa’s Tech Innovators at ‘Demo Africa’ in Nairobi – [Video]
NAIROBI, KENYA — From games to mobile payment systems, entrepreneurs from across Africa are getting together in Nairobi, Kenya, to pitch their high-tech innovations to potential investors and partners....
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Meanwhile Africans Are Being Contained By Post Colonial Societies: A Military...
Legged Squad Support System (LS3) is a four-legged robot designed to travel 20 miles on rough terrain carrying 400 lbs of load. The video shows field testing at Twentynine Palms, CA. Testing includes...
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As a Whole Africans Need to Start Thinking Outside the Box…But Will We? Amber...
The engineering team at Texas A&M’s Amber robotics labs has been hard at work trying to improve one area of robotics that others seem to be ignoring—getting a robot to mimic the natural gait of a...
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Africans Progress is Being Hampered by Post Colonial Societies: Meanwhile...
Boston Dynamics, the Waltham, Massachusetts robotics company that receives funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is making more video news. Whether the company turns out...
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Next Generation Military Robots Being Connected [Video]
A number of robots in development for the military are being given increasing amounts of autonomy. The question is now how they will be used?Think of advanced robotics, and it is easy to let your mind...
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Africans Remain Divided By Post Colonial Societies: Meanwhile Here Comes...
Technology has always defined how wars are fought, from swords to bows and arrows through the invention of gunpowder and the dawn of the aircraft and, now, to the presence of laser-guided unmanned...
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