If you’re visiting Dale Carnegie and his Mechatronics team at Victoria University, don’t be scared when you are approached by ...
Robots work using a combination of electronics, computer programming and mechanics called mechatronics. Electricity is key to the functioning of ...
The value of the horticultural industry will increase with better pollination systems, robust quality control, better traceability systems, more cost-competitive ...
Discussions of artificial intelligence (AI) are inseparable from questions of ethics. In 1942, Isaac Asimov famously popularised the idea that intelligent machines should adhere to a ...
Humans are now developing machines (robots) that imitate human emotion and thought. This Connected article explores the development of artificial intelligence (AI) from a social and ...
This article describes the process undertaken by three students from Feilding’s Manchester Street School as they designed and built a robot that won the New Zealand ...
The 2016 Kaikōura earthquake caused sudden large-scale changes along the coastline. The intertidal zones were lifted up to 6 metres in some places. In the media, ...
Aerial imaging is not new, and scientists have been using data gathered from manned flights for decades. In recent decades, Earth-oriented satellites have become the dominant ...
An inquiry approach is a method often used in science education. The question bank provides an initial list of questions about monitoring our environment using artificial ...
Monitoring our world using artificial sensors Artificial sensors enable us to overcome the limitations of our human senses and extend them in novel and useful ways, ...
Animals from bees to bats are inspiring the new generation of drones or flying robots, and large military strike drones aside, the robots themselves are getting ...
Next time you eat a kiwifruit, cut it in half and look at it before taking a bite. Look for the little seeds – most kiwifruit ...
Artificial sensors and probes enable us to overcome the limitations of our human senses and extend them in novel and useful ways, using the scientific concepts ...
Position: Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Victoria University, Wellington Field: Mechatronics, digital electronics, embedded controllers Dale with two of his prototype search and rescue robots. ...
All materials are made up of tiny particles called atoms. Atoms are made up of even smaller particles called protons, neutrons and electrons. The protons found ...
Extending human senses involves finding ways to monitor our environment so that we can ‘see’, ‘feel’ or ‘hear’ things beyond what our senses allow us to ...
Position: CEO, Sensortec, Quantec Ltd. Field: Electrical engineering. When the Hub's first met Rod we learned how he loved the fact that his work is dynamic, ...
Dairy research company DairyNZ set up the Greenfield research farm to investigate the possibility of using automatic milking systems on New Zealand dairy farms. Setting up ...
Students use information about an Automated Milking System (AMS) to design the layout of their own farm. Two-dimensional drawings are processed to make three-dimensional models of ...
An English-language edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s <i>Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica</i>. The translation of many scientific works from Latin to English allowed them to reach a ...
These schools taught Māori students subjects like English and maths. The schools have been criticised for contributing to the diminishment of te reo Māori and for ...
Illustration of a compound microscope from René Descartes’ La Dioptrique. Descartes’ contributions to scientific thought include the formula ‘cogito, ergo sum’ (I think, therefore I am) ...
In this once popular demonstration, a child suspended by insulated cords was charged with static electricity to attract objects and generate sparks.
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