TECHNOLOGY
Teen brilliance makes robotic arm
New York: 17-year-old Indian-origin teenager has won accolades for an inexpensive robotic arm he created for his school science fair project in California State of the US. Nilay Mehta was awarded a blue ribbon award- an accolade that recognizes a student’s academic excellence in US schools – for his project. His project qualified for the Orange County Science and Engineering Fair where he won four first-place awards, Daily Pilot newspaper reported recently. Nilay, a student of Irvine Public School in California, spent over four months building and programming the robotic arm to replicate the movement of a human hand. “First I was confused about what direction I would go to, but I knew I wanted to do something in prosthetics. One issue I saw is that there were no lower-cost options,” Nilay said.
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