Tag: Robotics
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FG commences robotics competition for students
The Federal Government (FG) has kicked off the 2023/2024 robotics competition for students in a bid to nurture excellence in science and boost students’ educational opportunities in Artificial Intelligence.
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Reps Speaker mulls bill to check AI use in Nigeria
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas has called for the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics and other emerging technologies.
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Nigeria gets first Artificial Intelligence, Robotics Centre
Dr Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, on Friday in Abuja, inaugurated the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. The centre seeks to position the country for the Fourth Industrial Revolution that dwells on emerging technologies. The minister said at the inauguration that the establishment of the centre was in line with…
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Again, Nigerian students soar at world robotics
Nigerian teenagers, who raised the country’s flag at the 2018 First Global Robotic Olympiad (GRO) in Mexico, won two bronze medals at the competition involving 187 countries. The Nigerian team won the medals in the Outstanding Support and International Journey categories. There were 20 categories of awards at the event which ended on Sunday. The…
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Buhari approves agency for robotics and AI for South East
Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu said President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of an agency on robotics and artificial intelligence(AI) for the South East. Onu revealed this at a grand rally of the All Progressives Congress in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state. The rally which received defectors from the Peoples Democratic…
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Nigerian students soar at World Adolescent Robotics
Three Nigeria students have won gold for proper documentation of processes on engineering note at the 2018 World Adolescent Robotic Competition in China. The students – Tawakalitu Giwa, Oluwaseun Omotayo and Ayomide Adetunji – also won the “Rajaa Cherkaoui El Moursli’ Award for Courageous Achievement at the event organised by the China Association of Science…
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Washington DC show: Osinbajo commends Nigeria’s robotics team
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has praised the effort of Team Nigeria to the First Global Robotic Olympics in Washington DC, U.S., in 2017 for its outstanding performance at the challenge. He made the commendation while receiving the six-member team, their project Director, Mentor and sponsors to the July 14 to July 19, 2017…
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Expert advises FG to establish robotic laboratories in schools
An ICT expert, Mrs Ngozi, Nonyelu, has called on the Federal Government to encourage the establishment of robotics laboratories in secondary schools. Nonyelu, the Managing Director of Baun Robotics Educational Solutions gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday. She said robotics was an interdisciplinary branch…
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Researchers develop new malleable, recyclable e-skin
Researchers have developed a novel type of malleable, self-healing and fully recyclable “electronic skin”, that has applications ranging from robotics and prosthetic development to better biomedical devices. The new study was published in the journal Science Advances. Electronic skin, known as e-skin, is a thin, translucent material that can mimic the function and mechanical properties…
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Big Data: Taking Nigerian universities research works from ‘rusty shelves’
The question of when Nigerian universities research works will leave rusty shelves has been asked time and time again with no end seems to be in view, but experts have provided a tech solution, and there is one university in Nigeria that is at the forefront driving efforts in that direction to removing its pile…