~ Wildlife. Robots. Drones ~

Probably the only place where most of us would agree to use Drones, i.e. to monitor wildlife. National Geographic uses Robots & Drones to film African Lions at Serengeti.

The big cats are on a steady decline over the last couple of years. It is sad to note that 5000 - 6000 lions are bred in captivity till 5 years and then released for hunting. Thats shocking to hear. You can listen to it here.

Don't forget to visit the beautiful micro-site setup by NGC, The Serengeti Lion. Love the Design & UX of the site.

I wish India adopt Drones & Robots or Technology in general to save Wildlife

Via: The Verge | Note: All photographs by Michael Nichols & Bent Stirton for NGC.

~ Personal robotics ~

Imagine, when you can train your robots & let it guard your home. That would be brilliant ain't it? We aren't very far from that day. 

This TED talk looks more like a infomercial, of sorts, for the company which has built the robot - Romo. However, it offers a glimpse for the ideas or use-cases that one can come up with.

It would be definitely worthy of building an similar Android powered robot - Andro, just because it is more economical. Who would want to buy an expen$ive phone & use it as Romo?  :P