(Photo: Northwestern University)Engineers at Northwestern University have created micro-robots that mimic the peekytoe crab—but on an almost unbelievably smaller scale. The half-millimeter “crabs” constitute the world’s smallest remote-control robots. Smaller than a flea, they’re able to walk along the edge of a penny or thread a sewing needle. Despite (or …
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Image copyright AFP Image caption Chris Kelly said women having families was leading to a ‘high fall-out rate’ The chancellor of a New Zealand university appears to have apologised for saying a woman vet was “equivalent to two-fifths” of a man because she would take time out to have a …
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Despite not having the gloss of a unicorn startup like Snapchat, or the media attention like Atlassian or Uber; Monash University wants everyone to know that they can be technology disrupters too. Last week, the university held its fourth annual Faculty of Information Technology Innovation Showcase. Hosted at Telstra’s Gurrowa Innovation Lab in …
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