Robotics Unlimited created the six-legged OutRunner robot, one of the fasted electronic devices of the world. It can travel up to 20 miles per hour on level ground and the batteries are active for two full hours. This robot can travel over hills and rough terrain.
An 11-year-old boy from Texas, Bishop Curry, has invented a device for keeping children safe in overheated cars. He was motivated to do this after a tragic event occurred in his neighbourhood sometime ago: a 6-month-old baby died after being left in a hot car. Hact is, an average of 37 kids die per year in the US this way. Since 1994, 804 children have died.
The Internet turned 25 years old. His inventor, the London born computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, speaking on the anniversary, called for a digital bill of rights to ensure internet freedom.
Chinese researchers have teleported a photon from the Gobi desert to a satellite orbiting five hundred kilometers above the Earth, based on quantum entanglement process. The satellite Micius which has a Sun-synchronous orbit so that it passes over the same point on Earth at the same time each day was launched last year preparing the actual experiment.