A 3D Robot that Sweats

Three-dimensional printing is an important and amazing application of the discipline of robotics. It gives the designer the freedom to provide new functionality to the robots they create. This also aids the user to blend there robots with new customization and functionalities according to their needs. The field of robotics is an expanding industry today because of additive manufacturing industry. The University of Tokyo has designed an advanced three dimensional printed robot named Kengoro. This robot really sweats. It is embedded with cooling process that helps it to cool down…

Pollution in Ganga harming riverbed sediments too

India Science Wire The excessive amounts of human waste and toxic effluents that find their way into the Ganga River are not only polluting the water but also causing deficit of dissolved oxygen in the riverbeds in some of the most polluted stretches of the river, a new study has found. Dissolved oxygen is an important parameter that determines health and rejuvenation capacity of any riverine ecosystem. The amount of dissolved oxygen in a river depends on atmospheric supply of oxygen, photosynthetic process, and oxygen-consuming metabolic and chemical processes. If…

New method can produce designer hydrogels

India Science Wire A team of scientists at the Bengaluru-based Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) have developed a new technique that promises to produce hydrogels that could be used for a variety of applications like cleaning of industrial wastewater.   The method involves self-assembly of tiny cubes of metal-organic compounds into hydrogels with the help of molecular binders. The makeup of the resulting hydrogel depends on the size, shape and geometry of the molecular binder.   For instance, when researchers used cationic ammonia-based molecular binder, the resulting…

Automation in Banking Sector has proved to be remarkable landmarks

Automation is the technology by which a process is performed by minimum human assistance. Automation is also known as ‘Automatic Control’ which is done by the use of different control systems. The term ‘Automation’ has been derived by the word automatic, which was widely used before 1947 when Ford established an Automation Department. Before 1980’s, Indian Banking System was completely using traditional ways of transaction and there was no involvement of technology in the customer service, book-keeping and MIS reporting the urgent need for computerization was felt in the Indian…

Prime Minister’s Office has announced the way forward for Science and Technology Initiatives

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s recently referred to his Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STAIC)’s work on taking on challenges in science and identifying solution for societal problems through technology and innovation. On 6th March 2019 at Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, a press interaction was help by the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, Dr K Vijay Raghavan to share details on the national missions guided by the PM-STIAC. Government is focusing on various section regarding this and the section are Natural language translation, quantum frontier, artificial intelligence,…

IoT and Automation are transforming the Face of the Indian Logistics Industry

The logistics industry in India has come a long way, driving the growth of the Indian economy with full rigur, accounting for almost 14% of the country’s total GDP. The industry, which currently serves as fuel for the effective functioning of various other industries is currently estimated to be around US$ 160 billion, and according to the domestic rating agency ICRA, the Indian logistics sector is expected to grow at a rate of 8-10 percent over the medium term. Technology and its extensive usage have played a miraculous role in…

Smart Retail – Perfect recipe of AI, IoT and Robotics!!

The retail industry caters to the need of consumers across the board and continues to be largest and most attractive industry segment globally comprising FMCG, Apparel, Fashion, Electronics, Quick Service Restaurants, Entertainment, etc. As per Statista[1], retail sales worldwide touched USD 25 trillion in 2018 and projected to grow to USD 27.7 trillion by 2020. The retail industry is going through a transformative phase enabled by mobile technology, omnichannel strategy, advancements in modern retail outlets, the emergence of new retail business models, online commerce, doorstep services, customer analytics, a convergence…

ICG loaded antioxidant functionalized protein nanoparticles for targeted detection of cancer cells in sentinal lymph node.

  Cancers of the oral cavity, oropharynx, supraglottis and hypopharynx are associated with a significant risk of metastatic cancer in the draining regional lymph nodes which is undetectable by standard clinical and radiological investigations. The current methodologies involve the injection of a radioactive substance, a blue dye, or both, near the tumor. it has however brought up two limitations- a) a suboptimal sensitivity with occasional false negative results; b) and toxicity and wastage problems associated with radioactive materials and the convetionally used blue dyes which may cause allergic reactions and…

Piezoelectric effect: a new possibility of effective energy utilization

We have heard and seen many form of energies in our daily life such as: solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, tidal energy (eco-friendly and renewable), petroleum (non eco-friendly and non-renewable) one of the biggest form of energy present on our planet and such as many more. All the above energies are used according to their geographical area or there where the energy source is proportionally present. Like the wind energy is mostly used in coastal areas because of the high pressure of the air in that region. Mutually other…

National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems

National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) addresses the ever increasing technological requirements of the society, and takes into account the international trends and road maps of leading countries for the next generation technologies. A cyber-physical system (CPS) is an orchestration of computers and physical systems. Embedded computers monitor and control physical processes, usually with feedback loops, where physical processes affect computations and vice versa. As an intellectual challenge, CPS is about the intersection, not the union, of the physical and the cyber. It combines engineering models and methods from…